Quotes about Author
But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.
— Victor Hugo
His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly.
— Victor Hugo
Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.
— Victor Hugo
Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing chills the heart like symmetry, for symmetry is ennui and ennui is at the heart of grief.
— Victor Hugo
An opulent priest is a contradiction.
— Victor Hugo
There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.
— Victor Hugo
These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst
— Victor Hugo
It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.
— Victor Hugo
Because things are unpleasant, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust toward God.
— Victor Hugo
It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.
— Victor Hugo
The lancer put on the satisfied smirk of a bandit praised for his honesty.
— Victor Hugo