Les Miserables (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Victor Hugo Reprint Edition Quotes

“All that clearly emerged from his attitude and expression was that he was in a state of strange indecision, seemingly adrift between the two extremes of death on the one hand and salvation on the other—ready to shatter that skull or to kiss that hand.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Victor Hugo Reprint Edition

“Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Victor Hugo Reprint Edition

“The only reprieve I need is that of my own conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Victor Hugo Reprint Edition

“Whoever votes, rules.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Victor Hugo Reprint Edition