1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Mais soyons justes envers l'aristocratie. Elle a fait équilibre à la royauté; elle a été contrepoids. Elle a fait obstacle au despotisme; elle a été barrière. Remercions-la, et enterrons-la.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

Sabe cuál es mi enfermedad? La utopía. Sabe cuál es la suya? La rutina. La utopía es el porvenir que se esfuerza en nacer. La rutina es el pasado que se obstina en seguir".

Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault.

As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.