“Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!”
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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”
“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
“Liberation is not deliverance.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...
“The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.”
“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.”
“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.”
“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
“It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
Source: Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea
“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
“Taste is the common sense of genius.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
Source: Les Misérables
“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.”
“Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.”
“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
Source: Napoleon the Little
“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
Source: Oration on Voltaire
“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”