1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?

على أنه لم ينظر وراءه كما ذكرنا ، لأن البؤساء لا ينظرون وراءهم ، فهم يعلمون أن النحس يلازمهم ، وأن الشقاء يطاردهم.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.

Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman...

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

Romanticism, so often ill-defined, is only ... liberalism in literature.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.