“Are you afraid of the good you might do?”
Source: Les Misérables
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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
Source: Les miserables
“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“by making himself a priest made himself a demon.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.”
“To have lied is to have suffered.”
Source: The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo
“Reality in strong doses frightens.”
Source: The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
Source: Things Seen (Choses Vues)
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
Source: Les Misérables
“A breath of Paris preserves the soul.”
Source: Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition
“Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.”
Source: Les miserables
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.”
Source: Les Misérables
“As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
Source: Les Miserables Vol. II, Book 5–8
“Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.”
Source: Les miserables
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“When the heart is dry the eye is dry.”
Source: Les Misérables
“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!”
Source: Les Misérables
“The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop”
Source: Les Misérables: Fantine
“Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
Source: Les Misérables: Fantine
“It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.”
Source: Les Misérables
“France is great because she is France.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables: World Classic
“If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.”
Source: Les Misérables