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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.”
Source: The Novels, Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo: Les misérables
“Joy is the reflex of terror.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
Source: Les Misérables
“What love commences can be finished by God alone.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.”
“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”
Source: Les Misérables
“. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.”
Source: Saint Denis
“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”
Source: Works of Victor Hugo: Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned
“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Source: Les Misérables
“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
Source: William Shakespeare
“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: William Shakespeare
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
“Men hate those to whom they have to lie.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry”
Source: The novels
“For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.”
Source: Les Misérables
“A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.”
Source: Saint Denis