Top 47 Les Mis Quotes
#1. I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
Eliza Doolittle
#2. I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.
Hugh Jackman
#3. I've seen everything from 'Wicked' to 'The Book Of Mormon,' and I don't make any bones of the fact that I love both. But 'Les Mis' is not only my favorite musical, but it's also my favorite story. I love the book, which I read as a kid, and I identified so much with Jean Valjean.
Corey Taylor
#4. I love 'Les Mis' so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I've seen it almost 18 times.
June Diane Raphael
#5. I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.
Anne Hathaway
#6. 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.
June Diane Raphael
#7. Get ready for 'Les Mis 2' ... I'm playing 'Fat Cosette.'
Rebel Wilson
#8. You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#9. Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.
Victor Hugo
#10. Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault.
Victor Hugo
#11. Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.
Victor Hugo
#12. Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
Victor Hugo
#13. 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
#14. Why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?
Victor Hugo
#15. 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
#16. To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Victor Hugo
#17. You always have everything better than the rest, even pain.
Victor Hugo
#18. It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.
Victor Hugo
#19. 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
#20. France is great because she is France.
Victor Hugo
#21. Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
Victor Hugo
#22. What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.
Victor Hugo
#23. It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.
Victor Hugo
#24. 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
#25. He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.
Victor Hugo
#26. 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
Victor Hugo
#27. 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
#28. All that he might have felt of love in his entire life melted into a sort of ineffable radiance.
Victor Hugo
#30. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Victor Hugo
#31. 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
#33. Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her
Victor Hugo
#34. If no one loved, the sun would go out.
Victor Hugo
#35. 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
#36. Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.
Victor Hugo
#37. One would have called it a luminous wound.
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. 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
#40. Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!
Victor Hugo
#41. When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
Victor Hugo
#42. 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
#43. A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.
Victor Hugo
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
Victor Hugo
#47. He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.
Victor Hugo
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