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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 28

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

Laughter, Spring, Doors

"Les misérables".

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Beautiful, Silence, Moments

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Brother, Eye, Angel

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Believe, Hands, Temples

Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

Heart, Men, Compassion

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

At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

Sleep, Angel, Looks

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

Stars, Dark, Sky

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Wisdom, Fall, Vanity

Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

Morning, Light, Labyrinth

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

Clouds, Tables, Elude

"Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo, Book III, 1862.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

Clothes, Giving, Interesting

To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

Love Is, Accomplishment, Pearls

There are no rules for felicity.

Happiness, Felicity

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

Sleep, World, Existence

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5084, Delphi Classics

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

Weight, Common, Divine

Victor Hugo (1874). “Toilers of the Sea”, p.20

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

Anger, Voice, Mountain

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7002, Delphi Classics

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Stars, Men, Ducks

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

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Boredom, Suffering, Hell

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

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Criticism, Critics, Verses

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Grandmother, Men, Grandparent

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Wisdom, Men, Soul

Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.303, Victor Hugo

Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

Character, Joy, Faults

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Fall, People, Stones

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

Ideas, Rivers, Flow

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

Laughing, Enthusiasm, Mirth

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2760, Delphi Classics

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