Javert's Quotes

#1. I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films. - Author: Ted Kotcheff

#2. Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble. - Author: Victor Hugo

#3. America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land. - Author: Alison Lurie

#4. Decision. On bad days, Eli considered Wolfe his personal Javert - doggedly, - Author: Nora Roberts

#5. When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't - mercy - did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't know who he was anymore. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#6. And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so.
- Javert - Author: Victor Hugo

#7. He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal. - Author: Victor Hugo

#8. Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good. - Author: Victor Hugo

#9. Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. - Author: Victor Hugo

#10. The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert. - Author: Victor Hugo

#11. It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean. - Author: Karen Joy Fowler

#12. Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet. - Author: Santosh Kalwar

#13. ...Javel saw evil in those bright blue eyes, not malevolence but something much worse: an evil born of lack of self-awareness, an evil that didn't know it was evil and therefore could justify anything. - Author: Erika Johansen

#14. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings - Author: Robin Hobb

#15. Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it. - Author: Brenna Yovanoff

#16. My go to karaoke song is 'Stars' from 'Les Mis', which is Javert's song. And it's super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that's what I do. - Author: June Diane Raphael

#17. And he won her freedom by playing beautiful music,' Roland added. 'I think he played a lute. Or maybe it was a lyre.'
'Ach, weel, that'll suit us fine,' said Daft Wullie. 'We're experts at lootin' an' then lyin' aboot it. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#18. In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost. - Author: Victor Hugo

#19. The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back. - Author: Carl Sandburg

#20. One thing had amazed him, - this was that Jean Valjean should have done him a favor, and one thing petrified him, - that he, Javert, should have done Jean Valjean a favor. - Author: Victor Hugo