Les Miserable Quotes - Page 2

• To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Wicked, Succeed

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.135, Modern Library

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• I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Soul, World

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.21

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• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Lines, Saws

  "Les Miserables".

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• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ayurveda, Digestion

  Les Miserables 'Fantine', Bk III, Ch. 7

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

  Victor Hugo

  Les Mis, Study, Ifs

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

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• You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Strange, Speak

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Keeping Secrets

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Kissing, Giving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1031, First Avenue Editions

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• The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Guilt, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Kissing, Veils

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1169, My Ebook Publishing House

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