Victor Hugo Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Home, Years

• ...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, House, Together

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

• The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

  Victor Hugo

  Wall, Doors, Agony

• I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Race, Names

• Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

  Victor Hugo

  House, Humans, Human Beings

• The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, House, Hatred

• A wedding is not house-keeping.

  Victor Hugo

  Wedding, House

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

• Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

  Victor Hugo

  House, Splits, Splendor

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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