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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 14

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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

Dog, Kings, Cat

Victor Hugo (1917). “The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction”

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

Two, Happened

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

Love, Soul, Les Miserable

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.637, Wordsworth Editions

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

Song, Remains

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.97

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

Flower, Angel, Devil

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2967, Delphi Classics

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

Three, Letters, Knows

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.651, Modern Library

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Strong, Philosophy, Hands

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Impossible, Absurd, Translations

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

Flower, Sailing, Bud

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

Vision, Telescopes, Microscopes

"Les misérables".

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

Beautiful, Girl, Heart

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.597, BookCaps Study Guides

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

Wisdom, Flower, Suffering

Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.295, Mondial

I am for religion, against religions.

Religion, Against Religion

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

Dream, Self, Mind

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Art, Soul, Graves

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

Beautiful, God, Kings

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

Morning, Lying, Twilight

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

Kings, Wind, Desert

Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

Might

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

Doe, Movement, March

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12486, Delphi Classics

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

Bird, Soul, Cages

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

Dirt, Materials, Misplaced

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Sacrifice, One Day, Gains

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.700, Wordsworth Editions

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

Perfect, Perfection, Lovely

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

Truth, Honesty, Speak

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