Quotes about Victor Hugo

These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst

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.

other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.

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.

What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret.

Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.

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.

The lancer put on the satisfied smirk of a bandit praised for his honesty.

Once, however, he had a pleasure. He had gone out with a Robert Estienne, which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des Gres.—'I owe five sous,' he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day he had no dinner.

CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29—31.

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.