Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Quotes

The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

Right is just and true.

What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.

If no one loved, the sun would go out.

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown. Innocence has no truck with highness. It is as august in rags as it is draped in the fleur-de-lis.

... plunged into chance, --that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?, ’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul.

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.