Top 25 Quotes by Victor Hugo of 966 - Page 27

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Sunset, Men, Sunrise

Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.49, The Minerva Group, Inc.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Girl, Children, Unhappy

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

Victor Hugo

Night, Clouds, Black

Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Inspirational, Strength, Time

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Victor Hugo

Nature, Men, Sea

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Victor Hugo

Order, Sometimes, Command

They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

Victor Hugo

Stars, Flower, Eye

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

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

Victor Hugo

Lovely, Gold, Blonde

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables: World Classic”, p.158, World Classic

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

Victor Hugo

Food, Character, People

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Victor Hugo

Philosophical, Heaven, Soul

Victor Hugo (1894). “The novels, complete and unabridged, of Victor Hugo”

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Victor Hugo

Men, Bishops, Faces

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

Victor Hugo

Dream, Stars, Butterfly

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

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Victor Hugo

House, Splits, Splendor

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Victor Hugo

Block, Destiny, Black

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

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

Victor Hugo

Nature, Ignorance, Mean

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

Grief, Order, Essence

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

Victor Hugo

Rope, Les Miserable, Made

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

Victor Hugo

Heart, Order, Hunger

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

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Victor Hugo

Morning, Heart, Winter

Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

Victor Hugo

Book, Fate, People

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

Victor Hugo

Sadness, Secret, Obscure

Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.25

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Victor Hugo

Men, Liberty, Want

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

Victor Hugo

Life, Stars, Science

"Les misérables".

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

Victor Hugo

Fortune Cookie, Bows, Grammar

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

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Victor Hugo

Grief, Taken, Men

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.379, Wildside Press LLC

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