Victor Hugo Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Healing

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.597, Modern Library

• It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Book, People

  "Toilers of the Sea".

• England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

  Victor Hugo

  Bible, Book, Two

• Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

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  Beautiful, God, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Healing, Teens

• He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

  Victor Hugo

  Book

  Victor Hugo (1909). “Les Miserables”

• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Book, Race

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

• It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Men, Doe

  VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.9

• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

• He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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  Book, Safe, Cold

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.840, BookCaps Study Guides

• So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Ignorance, Long

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.3, Victor Hugo

• M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

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  Book, Political Opinions, Passionate

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.461, Wordsworth Editions

• In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Men, Gossip

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

• This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Men

• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Letters, Stones

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

• The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Fate, People

• Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Writing, Men

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