Victor Hugo: Citáty anglicky

“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“… Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

Victor Hugo

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”

Victor Hugo

“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

Victor Hugo

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

-Claude Frollo”

Victor Hugo kniha Chrám Matky Boží v Paříži

“There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

“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_)”

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables