Quotes from Victor Hugo

He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people.

if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming degraded are rare;

Live and Let live To love someone is to see the face of God

Aucun penseur n'oserait dire que le parfum de l'aubépine est inutile aux constellations.

L'âme aide le corps, et à de certains moments le soulève. C'est le seul oiseau qui soutienne sa cage.

La nuit fait des distributions d'essence stellaire aux fleurs endormies.

Kitapl?k kurmak, tap?nak yapmak kadar kutsald?r.

Ä°nsan yüreÄŸi ancak belli bir miktar umutsuzluk bar?nd?rabilir. Sünger bir kez emeceÄŸini emdi mi, üstünden deniz geçse oraya fazladan bir damla su bile sokamaz.

A los ignorantes, enséñenles la mayor cantidad de cosas posible. La sociedad es culpable por no darles instrucción gratuita; ella debe responder por la oscuridad que con ello produce. Si un alma sumida en sombras comete un pecado, no tiene la culpa el que peca, sino el que ha causado la oscuridad.

We who die here will die in the radiance of the future. We go to a tomb flooded with the light of dawn.

What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret.

one of those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody.

La señora Magloire le llamaba siempre Vuestra Grandeza,un día se levantó de su sillón y fue a la biblioteca a buscar un libro. Estaba éste en una de las tablas más altas del estante, y como el obispo era de corta estatura, no pudo alcanzarlo. Señora Magloire, dijo, traedme una silla, porque mi Grandeza no lo alcanza a esa tabla.

in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits;

this spectre encountered the rich man in all his glory; but they did not look at each other, they passed on. This condition of things could thus last for some time. The moment this man perceives that this woman exists, while this woman does not see that this man is there, the catastrophe is inevitable.

he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted in his conscience, that all this had been good. What

You always have everything better than the rest, even pain.

He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter is Parisian. In

Rien ne peut arrêter une idée dont l'heure est venue.

La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.

j'avais le paradis dans le coeur.

Let your rain be your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household.