1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.