Quotes from Victor Hugo

Taurinum obsessor idem et obsessus

Let us die facing out foes, make them bleed while we can.

A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!

God will reward you, he said. You must be an angel since you care for flowers. I'm no angel, she replied. I'm the devil, but it's all the same to me.

Ma non basta essere cattivi, per prosperare.

Claude, saddened and discouraged in his human affections, by all this, had flung himself eagerly into the arms of learning, that sister which, at least does not laugh in your face, and which always pays you, though in money that is sometimes a little hollow, for the attention which you have paid to her.

These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and with a smile.

Na verdade, se nos fosse dado penetrar com os olhos da carne na consciência dos outros, julgaríamos com mais segurança um homem pelo que devaneia do que pelo que pensa. O pensamento é absolutamente espontâneo, toma e conserva, mesmo no gigantesco e no ideal, a figura do nosso espírito. Não há coisa que mais directa e profundamente saia do fundo da nossa alma do que as nossas aspirações irreflectidas e desmesuradas para os esplendores do destino

O ódio ao ensino dos filhos do povo era um dogma.

A masmorra escura. É o teu futuro. A preguiça, o prazer, que precipícios! Não fazer nada, é um lúgubre partido a tomar, sabes? Viver ocioso da substância social! Ser inútil, ou seja, nocivo! Isso conduz directamente ao fundo da miséria.

In this solitude there was also a heart that was all ready. Love had only to show its face; there was a temple there composed of greenery, of grass, of moss, of bird sighs, of soft shade, of agitated branches, and a soul made of gentleness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, and of illusion.

R?scolea toate tufiÈ™urile È™i toate pietrele, ca s? caute gâze. AÈ™teptând s? viseze, se juca. Îi pl?cea gr?dina cu gâng?niile care furnicau în iarb?, sub picioarele ei, aÈ™teptând s-o iubeasc? pentru stelele pe care avea s? le vad? printre ramuri, deasupra capului.

A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing.

bütün insanlar günü belirsiz bir ölüme mahkûmdurlar

As Claude Frollo had passed through nearly the entire circle of human learning—positive, exterior, and permissible—since his youth, he was obliged, unless he came to a halt, ubi defuit orbis, to proceed further and seek other aliments for the insatiable activity of his intelligence. The antique symbol of the serpent biting its tail is, above all, applicable to science.

When a woman talks to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

In the early ages, the social edifice rested on three columns, the priest, the king and the headsman. It is a long time since a voice exclaimed, "The gods have departed!" Lately another voice has cried, "The kings have departed!" It is now full time that a third voice shall be raised to say, "The executioner must go!

There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.

Zabluda je uobraziti da se sudbina može iscrpsti i da se može dodirnuti dno makar ?ega bilo.

El éxito es algo bastante repulsivo. El falso parecido que tiene con el mérito engaña a los hombres.

the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a long life.

This ideal was realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old.

Il y a des gens qui respectent les règles de l'honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.

Todos los actos humanos tienen dos caras!