Source: Cosette
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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.”
Source: Saint Denis
Source: Les Mis??rables
Source: Les Mis??rables
Source: Cosette
“Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.”
Source: Marius
“To love beauty is to see light.”
Source: Hugo's Works
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Source: William Shakespeare
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)
“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Source: From exile, and after the fall of the Empire
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Source: Les miserables
“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Source: Cosette
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
Source: Notre-Dame de Paris
“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”
Source: Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Source: Marius
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”