Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 36

• His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Judgement, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC

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• We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Soul, Vices

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

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• Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Plunge, Cosette

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

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• These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Long, Touching

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

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• There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

  Victor Hugo

  Sunrise, Depth, Critical Moments

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

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• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Birthday, Men

  "Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

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• He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Lost Love, Heart

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• At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Passion, Night

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

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• The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.127

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• The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

  Victor Hugo

  Expression, Law, Names

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

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• There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Distance, People

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1473, My Ebook Publishing House

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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

  Victor Hugo

  Christmas, Night, Air

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• Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Brain

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Wicked, Succeed

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.135, Modern Library

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• There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

  Victor Hugo

  People, Praying

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• I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Crush, Night

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

  Victor Hugo

  Yesterday, Forever, May

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• God whose gifts in gracious flood
  Unto all who seek are sent,
  Only asks you to be good
  And is content.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodness, Flood, Gracious

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

  Victor Hugo

  Love You, Believe, Littles

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.778, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Doe, Bread

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

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• His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

  Victor Hugo

  Fog, Two, Whole Life

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2957, Delphi Classics

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• While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.

  Victor Hugo

  Friday, Cake, Tuesday

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1116, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Winter, Men

  Victor Hugo, Sir Lascelles Wraxall (1862). “Les Misérables”, p.155

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• It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Men, Names

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• There are things stronger than the strongest man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Stronger, Strongest

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.483, Modern Library

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