Quotes from Les Miserables

To love another person is to see the face of God. – Victor Hugo

Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men? – Victor Hugo

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. – Victor Hugo

I am reaching, but I fall, and the night is closing in. – Victor Hugo

Love is a many splendid thing. – Victor Hugo

To love or have loved, that is enough. – Victor Hugo

The soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its merit. – Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. – Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. – Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned; if I stay silent, I am damned! – Victor Hugo

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again. – Victor Hugo

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. – Victor Hugo

He never went out without a notebook and pencil. – Victor Hugo

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. – Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. – Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo

People do not lack strength, they lack will. – Victor Hugo

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. – Victor Hugo

There is a sacred duty to lie for the sake of the oppressed. – Victor Hugo

Men are not released from their sufferings all at once. – Victor Hugo

There are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators. – Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. – Victor Hugo

The story of a woman’s life, as it is told in public, is only a war work. – Victor Hugo

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. – Victor Hugo

Not being heard is no reason for silence. – Victor Hugo

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. – Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. – Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! – Victor Hugo

Meeting youth with age in confidence and charm.” – Victor Hugo

People who ask our age don’t know what to do with the answer.” – Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world except this matters. – Victor Hugo

Without love, God, a man and woman would lead lonely lives. – Victor Hugo

The light of love, the purity of grace, the mind, the music, breathing from her face. – Victor Hugo

There is no limit to the begetting of children. – Victor Hugo

Art is the axis of revolution. – Victor Hugo

The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it. – Victor Hugo

If the soul is free, it cannot be condemned. – Victor Hugo

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other faculties. – Victor Hugo

In every sense man’s conscience is his existence. – Victor Hugo

Methods pass, principles remain. – Victor Hugo

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. – Victor Hugo

Monsieur Mado said it was simple. The police are imbeciles who adore imbecility. – Victor Hugo

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