Quotes of Hugo - somelinesforyou

“ Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom "charitable" souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin… ”

- Albert Camus

“ Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. When my last Great Dane died, I thought I would never get another. I loved that dog so much. But my son Jeffrey found Hugo at a kennel that was overstocked; Hugo was almost 2, just over being a puppy… ”

- Anna Lee

“ Rick' is its own piece, but yet it is this curious reflection on the cave wall of 'Rigoletto.' And 'Rigoletto' was an adaptation of a previous play by Victor Hugo. To me it's always a surprise how modern 'Rigoletto' is because of the ambiguities: Rigoletto is a jester, he's compromised, but he's also charismatic and interesting… ”

- Bill Pullman

“ He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head thrown back and eyes aloft, to reconstitute a past, to reduce it in fact to the convenient terms of Victor Hugo, whom, a few days before, giving the rein for once in a way to the joy of life, he had purchased in seventy bound volumes, a miracle of cheapness, parted with, he was assured by the shopman, at the price of the red-and-gold alone… ”

- Henry James
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