“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
Source: Les Misérables
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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Source: Les miserables
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Source: Marius
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
Source: Cosette
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
Source: Saint Denis
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
Source: Les miserables
Source: Les Misérables
“If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!”
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
Source: Les Misérables
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
Source: Les Misérables: Fantine
“I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.”
Source: Les Misérables
“To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.”
Source: Les Misérables
“On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
Source: Cosette
“We are for religion against the religions.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
Source: Saint Denis
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Les miserables
“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.”
Source: Les Mis??rables