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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 22

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Flower, Angel, Care

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

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

Blow, Blood, Tears

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

Hypocrisy, Frightened

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

Two, Blades, Edges

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.842, Wordsworth Editions

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Wings, Bird, Soul

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

War, Struggle, Hypocrisy

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

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

Men, God Bless, Bless

And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

Love, Girl, Men

"Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)".

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

Two, Forever, Heaven

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Men, May, Irritated

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

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Beauty, Art, Flesh

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

God, Fall, Winning

"The Hamilton Speaker (The Battle of Waterloo)". Book edited by Oliver Ernesto Branch, 1878.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Charity, Possession, Wells

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Religious, Prayer, Believe

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

God, Prayer, Believe

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Mean, Men, Citizens

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.17

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Faith, Confidence, Health

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Omnipotence, Evil, Effort

"Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs ..., Volume 1". Book by Iam A. Freeman, p. 520, March 26, 2014.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

Prayer, Long, Sincere

"Stop What You’re Doing and Read".

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

World, Alphabet, Language

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

Philosophy, Past, Men

Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Son, Gentleman, Desert

I was dying when you came.

Dying

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

Sorrow, One Day, Details

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2050, BookCaps Study Guides

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