1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she had never thought of her face.

He who opens a school door closes a prison.

At the shrine if friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.

To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material".

But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.