Victor Hugo
10 quotes
“Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé. Histoire d'un crime. Déposition d'un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint”
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“The best way to worship God is to love your wife. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief! Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“One can no more pray too much than love too much. Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”
“Plaidoyer contre la peine de mort”
“La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection. Unpublished notebook from 1845”
“Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme! God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. Ruy Blas (1838), Act II, Scene V”
“Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur! These two halves of God , the Pope and the emperor. Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II”
“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing. Written at the age of 15 in one of his notebooks ( c . 1817), as quoted in The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897) by Georges Pellissier”