Les Mis C3 A9rables Quotes

#1. The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.

Bell Hooks

#2. The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

Shakira

#3. Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise.

Victor Hugo

#4. We should not leave our "house of bread", because it is our assurance of eternity.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?

Victor Hugo

#6. Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

Victor Hugo

#7. Your capabilities are immeasurable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

Victor Hugo

#10. In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

Zack Wamp

#11. Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.

Victor Hugo

#12. To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

Victor Hugo

#13. His hair stuck up more than usual, but he was otherwise neat in his typical black. If they lived through the mission, she decided to buy him an obnoxiously cheerful shirt. Something in sunflower yellow, perhaps.

Lindsay Buroker

#14. In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope.

Victor Hugo

#15. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Bobby Knight

#16. It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

Victor Hugo

#17. He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing save on her account.

Victor Hugo

#18. He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.

Victor Hugo

#19. The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.

Victor Hugo

#20. It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.

Victor Hugo

#21. God is willing to answer when we ask: ' Ask and it will be given to you; seek you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks received, and who seeke finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened(Matthew7:7-8, NKJV).

Euginia Herlihy

#22. Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Victor Hugo

#23. He asked himself ... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

Victor Hugo

#24. One does not cross-examine a saint.

Victor Hugo

#25. If no one loved, the sun would go out.

Victor Hugo

#26. There has to be new words
to explain new worlds.

Toba Beta

#27. Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

Victor Hugo

#28. One would have called it a luminous wound.

Victor Hugo

#29. All that he might have felt of love in his entire life melted into a sort of ineffable radiance.

Victor Hugo

#30. I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Michael Palin

#31. For men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

Victor Hugo

#32. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Victor Hugo

#33. I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Mark Strand

#34. That it was no doubt a dark hour, but that he should get through it; that after all he held his destiny, evil as it might be, in his own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to that thought.

Victor Hugo

#35. A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.

Victor Hugo

#36. For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Victor Hugo

#37. Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.

Victor Hugo

#38. Eponine and Azelma did not notice Cosette. To them she was like the dog. These three little girls could not count twenty-four years among them all, and they already represented all human society; on one side envy, on the other disdain.

Victor Hugo

#39. Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault.

Victor Hugo

#40. They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.

Shaquille O'Neal

#41. You always have everything better than the rest, even pain.

Victor Hugo