Victor Hugo Quotes About Idleness

Quotes about: Idleness

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Oppression, Idleness

• Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

  Victor Hugo

  Depth, Substance, Useless

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.798, Modern Library

• Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

  Victor Hugo

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.669, Wordsworth Editions

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