Source: Les Misérables
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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
Source: Les Misérables
“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 faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
Source: Cosette
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
Source: Notre-Dame de Paris
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.”
Source: Les miserables
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: William Shakespeare
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
Source: Les Misérables
“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”
Source: Dramas
“Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!”
“Liberation is not deliverance.”
Source: Les Misérables
“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.”
“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
Source: Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea
“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