Quotes about Hugo

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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially crea — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form o — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There are men who dig for gold — [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.
Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.--Hugo Anstead — Jennifer A. Girardin, The French De Ception
Awareness, like wine, is always better for the vintage.--Hugo Anstead — Jennifer A. Girardin, The Uncertainty Principle
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face — Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing; but here — Victor Hugo
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing — my conscience.
There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss — Kelsey Brickl, Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestria — Victor Hugo
Let us not, however, exaggerate our power. Whatever man does, the great lines of creation persist; the supreme mass does — Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be consid — Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead — Jennifer A. Girardin, The Uncertainty Principle
Every blade has two edges — he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
If no one loved, the sun would go out. — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all. — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstr — Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea
Hugo planned a five-course meal: smoked duck, oyster stew, roast beef with mashed yams, a salad of apples with beets and — Julia Glass, The Whole World Over
I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, th — Christopher Hitchens