Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 10

• Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

  Victor Hugo

  Les Mis, Study, Les Miserable

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

  17 Copy quote

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Soul

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

  5 Copy quote

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughing, Suffering, Sometimes

  27 Copy quote

• Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

  Victor Hugo

  Sin, Wealth

  37 Copy quote

• We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

  Victor Hugo

  Teacher, Learning, Journey

  15 Copy quote

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  Victor Hugo

  Work, Eye, Thinking

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

  13 Copy quote

• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

  Victor Hugo

  Law, Boredom, Submit

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

  6 Copy quote

• Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  8 Copy quote

• A war between Europeans is a civil war.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Historical, Civil War

  19 Copy quote

• Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

  Victor Hugo

  Sweet, Sweet Love, Rich

  6 Copy quote

• You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Shame, Glory

  9 Copy quote

• Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Land, Borders

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.16

  8 Copy quote

• He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.597, Modern Library

  19 Copy quote

• The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

  Victor Hugo

  Terrible, Motive, Response

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

  Victor Hugo

  Women, Bravery, Curiosity

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.3, Mondial

  11 Copy quote

• He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Safe, Cold

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.840, BookCaps Study Guides

  26 Copy quote

• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

  33 Copy quote

• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  Victor Hugo

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Children

  9 Copy quote

• The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Soul, Needs

  10 Copy quote

• Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Men, Foolishness

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.911, Wordsworth Editions

  38 Copy quote

• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

  Victor Hugo

  Aim

  11 Copy quote

• There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

  Victor Hugo

  Teacher, Atheist, Religion

  "The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.

  24 Copy quote

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Horse, Women

  20 Copy quote

• True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

  Victor Hugo

  Mystery, Thinker, Clearness

  7 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Alexandre Dumas

Albert Camus

Emile Zola

Honore de Balzac

Charles Baudelaire

Jules Verne

Juliette Drouet

Gustave Flaubert