Quotes from Victor Hugo

Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.

Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.

Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.

What have we to fear, we who believe?

It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.

Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.

Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel

Or, donner la grosse cloche en mariage à Quasimodo, c'était donner Juliette à Roméo.

To love your neighbors is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables

Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.

And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without warning. Your statue has to be redone.

All civilisation begins with a theocracy and ends with a democracy. This law of liberty succeeding unity is written in architecture.