Top 25 Quotes by Victor Hugo of 966 - Page 37

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

Victor Hugo

America, Love At First Sight, Dancer

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

Victor Hugo

Wind, Together, Twists

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

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

Victor Hugo

Paris, Soul, Preserves

Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

Victor Hugo

Courage, Men, Light

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

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

Victor Hugo

Attitude, Hands, Greek

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

Victor Hugo

Fall, Light, Years

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.78, Modern Library

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Victor Hugo

Believe, Remembrance, Philosopher

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

Victor Hugo

Evil, Soul, Elements

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Victor Hugo

Men, Great Men, Seems

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

Victor Hugo

Dream, Angel, Men

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Victor Hugo

Sight, Heaven, Earth

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

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Victor Hugo

Men, People, Ordinary

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

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

Victor Hugo

Sight, Personality, Watches

Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.351

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Victor Hugo

Brother, Hands, Two

Victor Hugo (2015). “Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature”, p.92, 谷月社

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Victor Hugo

Stars, Dark, Clouds

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

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

Victor Hugo

Dream, Reality, Aids

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Victor Hugo

Men, Civilization, Language

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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Victor Hugo

Breathe

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

Victor Hugo

Sovereign, Eloquence, Indignation

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.566, Modern Library

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom, Memories, Moving

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6158, Delphi Classics

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

Victor Hugo

Two, Spoons, Miserable

Women are more credulous than men.

Victor Hugo

Trust, Men

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

Victor Hugo

Mother, Children, Two

Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

France is great because she is France.

Victor Hugo

France

Victor Hugo (2009). “Les Misérables”, p.852, ReadHowYouWant.com

Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.

Victor Hugo

Children, Heart, Years

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