Quotes About Fantine

#1. exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.

Victor Hugo

#2. [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"]

Victor Hugo

#3. What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts.

Victor Hugo

#4. I still can't believe I'm the girl who got to play Fantine.

Anne Hathaway

#5. A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day?" "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town.

Victor Hugo

#6. I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

Rachel Tucker

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

Victor Hugo

#8. What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defencelessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: a human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts.

Victor Hugo

#9. Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.

Victor Hugo

#10. Her heart ached, but she took her resolution. It will be seen that Fantine possessed the stern courage of life.

Victor Hugo

#11. I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
*Fantine

Victor Hugo

#12. Since we started this conversation," I said, "two hundred babies have been born on this planet. And what have we accomplished? You have eaten that thing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. It is better to be kind than right.

Wayne Dyer

#14. A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Max Lerner

#15. Where there is fear there is aggression.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

Victor Hugo

#17. If you are searching for someone to hate, try looking in the mirror.

Russ Lippitt

#18. I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

Anne Waldman

#19. Thorn gripped her claws tighter. Sunny. You're my daughter.

Tui T. Sutherland

#20. Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

Raymond Moody