1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

M. Myriel devait subir le sort de tout nouveau venu dans une petite ville où il y a beaucoup de bouches qui parlent et fort peu de têtes qui pensent.

Night and the day, when united,Bring forth the beautiful light.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty the youth of old age.

No le quitemos nada a la mente humana; suprimir es malo. Hay que reformar y transformar.

Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.

Govorio je čak da je povjerilac gori nego gospodar; jer gospodar raspolaže samo sa vašom ličnošću, a povjerilac raspolaže vašim dostojanstvom i može ga ošamariti.

Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again. "What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

Quasimodo then lifted his eye to look upon the gypsy girl, whose body, suspended from the gibbet, he beheld quivering afar, under its white robes, in the last struggles of death; then again he dropped it upon the archdeacon, stretched a shapeless mass at the foot of the tower, and he said with a sob that heaved his deep breast to the bottom, 'Oh-all that I've ever loved!' The Hunchback of Notre Dame

He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.