Quotes About Hugo

No era la facultad de amar lo que le faltaba, sino la posibilidad.

It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.

the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

The episcopal palace of D—— adjoins the hospital.

Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.

He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world.

there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,—there are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

You shouldn't abuse the revolutionaries, Mother Streetcorner. My pistol is on your side. It's to help you find more things worth eating in your basket.

CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY

Do you want a priest? I have one. answered Jean Valjean.

This man of lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris solely for the purpose of evading the police.

One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven.

But for the matter of that, Ursus, although eccentric in manner and disposition, was too good a fellow to invoke or disperse hail, to make faces appear, to kill a man with the torment of excessive dancing, to suggest dreams fair or foul and full of terror, and to cause the birth of cocks with four wings. He had no such mischievous tricks.

for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.

Through a religion you see the solar spectre of God, but not God.

As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not reach it. Madame Magloire, said he, fetch me a chair. My greatness [grandeur] does not reach as far as that shelf.

This demonstrates the novel truth—that great events have incalculable consequences.

Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves.

uttering that terrific cry:

On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.

It is particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is dangerous to have extremes meet.

Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, Tenait dans son bec une saisie executoire; Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: Hé! bonjour! etc.