Quotes from Victor Hugo
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
— Victor Hugo
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo
Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.
— Victor Hugo
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
— Victor Hugo
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
— Victor Hugo
With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.
— Victor Hugo
At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
— Victor Hugo
He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love
— Victor Hugo
This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo
— Victor Hugo
To love your neighbors is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables
— Victor Hugo
Conscience is God present in man.
— Victor Hugo
But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.
— Victor Hugo