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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 33

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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

Stars, Kissing, Two

Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

Mirrors, Doe, Use

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1314, First Avenue Editions

You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

Lying, Believe, Night

Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Punishment, Vengeance, Individual

Victor Hugo (1992). “The Last Day of a Condemned Man: And Other Prison Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

Ideas, Visible

Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.131, Dawson Bros.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

Poverty, Chance, Wealth

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

Men, Goats, Too Much

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.593, BookCaps Study Guides

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Hurt, Lying, People

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

Saint, Sin, Commit

Victor Hugo (2014). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Apples, Tree, Fruit

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.446, BookCaps Study Guides

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

Art, Science, Ladders

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

Military, Civilization, Climate

Love is a fault; so be it.

Love Is, Faults

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.117, First Avenue Editions

France lost a great novel last night.

Sex, Night, Lasts

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Fear, Night, Laughing

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.805, Modern Library

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

Science, Understanding, Avalanches

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

Men, Compassion, Divine Justice

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Wisdom, Men, Effort

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.

Appreciation, Women, School

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7782, Delphi Classics

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Men, Benefits, May

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

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Women, Men, Unfortunate

Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.253, Dawson Bros.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

Men, Glasses, Sea

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.67, Modern Library

We are for religion against the religions.

Wisdom, Les Miserable

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Wisdom, Errors, Way

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Drama, Epic, Development

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12469, Delphi Classics

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