Victor Hugo Stones Quotations

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?