Quotes about Victor Hugo
There was a coffin containing a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but no one was aware of it.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.
— 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
exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.
— Victor Hugo
It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.
— Victor Hugo
The lancer put on the satisfied smirk of a bandit praised for his honesty.
— Victor Hugo
Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again. What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--The love of a damned soul. a
— Victor Hugo
An opulent priest is a contradiction.
— Victor Hugo
These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst
— Victor Hugo
CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29—31.
— Max Lucado
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