Quotes from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quotes from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

It was time, for all the pious ladies were already licking their lips in anticipation of the fine flaming faggot.
Time for another Ricky Martin concert. Woohoo!! I know that’s not what it means but I find it hilarious. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.4, Ch.1, p.142

He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.4, Ch.2, p.145

I do not deny science. I have not crawled so long on my belly with my nails dug in the earth through all the innumerable windings of that dark cave of science, without perceiving in the distance, at the end of the dim passage, a light, a flame, a something – the reflection, no doubt, from that dazzling central laboratory where the patient and the wise have encountered God.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.5, Ch.1, p.169

Every civilization begins a theocracy and ends up in a democracy.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.5, Ch.2, p.177

”The tavern can only lead you to the pillory…The pillory leads to the gallows. The gallows lead to hell.”
”That’s just a big fire.”
”Jehan. Jehan! Your end will be bad.
”But the beginning will have been good.”
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.7, Ch.4, p.222

Beauty is the only thing that does not live by halves. The raven flies only by day. The owl, only by night. The swan flies night and day.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.9, Ch.4, p.376

Hurray for the Gay Life.
The title of Ch.3, Bk.10 in The Hunchback of Notre Dame p.395

”Christ and Mahomet! What am I eating now? Hey there, you old hussy! The hairs that are not on the heads of your wenches are in your omlets! Do you hear old woman! I like my omlets bald. May the devil flatten your nose! A fine tavern of Beelzebub this is – the wenches comb their hair with the forks.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.10, Ch.3, p.401

For, though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Bk.11, Ch.1, p.458

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