Victor-hugo Quotes

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. E...

Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city...

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...

Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under w...

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is ...

He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he look...

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...

There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky...

When Victor Hugo was buried, you couldn’t find a whore in all of Paris. They were too busy paying th...