Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Profoundly inspirational Les Miserables quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Les Miserables Quotes
Madame Thenardier: Master of the house, isn’t worth my spit. Comforter, philosopher, and lifelong shit
Jean Valjean: Bring Him Home,He’s like the son I might have known Jean Valjean: Bring him home. He’s like the son I might have known.
Marius: A heart full of love.
Thénardier: Everybody raise a glass!
Fantine: Give that letter to me it is none of your business. With a husband at home and a bit on a side. Is there anyone here who can swear before God, she has nothing to fear? She has nothing to hide?
Gavroche’s Urchin: The thing about equality is…everyone is equal when they are dead. Gavroche’s Urchin: The thing about equality is… everyone is equal when they are dead.
Enjolras: Red, the blood of angry man Black, the dark of ages past Red, a world about to dawn Black, the night that end at last Enjolras: Let others rise to take our place, until the Earth is free! Enjolras: Let others rise to take our place until the world is FREE
Jean Valjean: to love another person is to see the face of god Jean Valjean: To love another person is to see the face of god.
Feuilly: Drink with me….
Inspector Javert: Unless you learn the meaning of the law… Inspector Javert: Unless you learn the meaning of the law.
Marius: Oh my friends, my friends, don’t ask me, what your sacrifice was for. Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will sing no more.
Eponine: He was never mine to lose.
Fantine: Come with me where chains will never bind you. All your grief, at last, at last behind you.
Jean Valjean: To love another person is to see the face of God.
Fantine: Life has killed the dream I dreamed Fantine: Life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Cosette: Every day You walk with stronger step You walk with longer step The worst is over Marius: Every day I wonder every day Who was it brought me here From the barricade?
Enjolras: Marius, you’re late. Joly: What’s wrong today? You look as if you’ve seen a ghost. Grantaire: Some wine and say what’s going on! Marius: A ghost you say… a ghost maybe She was just like a ghost to me One minute there, and she was gone!
Jean Valjean: What have I done, sweet jesus what have I done, become a thief in the night, become a dog on the run Jean Valjean: What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done? Become a thief in the night, Become a dog on the run.
Gavroche: Do you hear the people sing Gavroche: Do you hear the people sing?
Thernardier: Everybody raise a glass! Thénardier: Everybody raise a glass! Madame Thenardier: Raise it up the master’s ass! Madame Thenardier: Raise it up the master’s arse!
Marius: Who is that girl? Eponine: Cosette.
Marius: There’s a grief that can’t be spoken. There’s a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables…now my friends are dead and gone. Marius: There’s a grief that can’t be spoken. There’s a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables… now my friends are dead and gone.
Eponine: But without him.. The world around me changes… The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers. Eponine: Without him. The world around me changes. The trees are bare and everywhere. The streets are full of strangers
Jean Valjean: Jean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!
Eponine: Why regret what could not be?
Marius: In my life, there is someone who touches my life. Waiting near… Eponine: Waiting here…
Eponine: I love him, but every day I’m learning. All my life, I’ve only been pretending. Without me, his world will go on turning–a world that’s full of happiness that I have never known.
Thénardier: The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.â?? Thénardier: The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Marius: [about Cosette] Eponine, find her for me! Eponine: What will you give me? Marius: Anything! Eponine: Got you all excited now, but God knows what you see in her! Aren’t you all delighted now? Marius: [Marius offers her money] Eponine: No, I don’t want your money, sir.
Bishop: Remember this my brother, see in this a higher plan, you must use this precious silver to become an honest man.
Eponine: Don’t you fret, Monsieur Marius. I don’t feel any pain. A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now. You’re here. That’s all I need to know. And you will keep me safe, and you will keep me close, and rain will make the flowers grow. Marius: But you will live, ‘Ponine, dear God above. I could heal your wounds with words of love… Marius: But you will live, ‘Ponine, dear God above. I could heal your wounds with words of love. Eponine: Just hold me now, and let it be. Shelter me, comfort me.
Eponine: Hey there Monsieur what’s new with you? Plotting to overthrow the state? You still pretending to be poor? Come on, I know your grandpa’s rich! Marius: Won’t take a franc that I’ve not earned. All of those bridges have been burned. Eponine: I like the way you talk Monsieur! Marius: I like the way you always tease! Eponine: Little he knows. Little he sees.
Javert: Stars in your multitudes, scarce to be counted, filling the darkness with order and light. You are the sentinels, silent and sure, keeping watch in the night.
Inspector Javert: You know nothing of Javert! I was born inside a jail! I was born with scum like you, I am from the gutter, too!
Inspector Javert: My name is Javert! Do not forget my name! Thénardier: I’m Javert! Do not forget my name!
Enjolras: Let others rise to take our place, until the Earth is free! Enjolras: Let others rise to take our place, until the earth is free!
Gavroche: How do you do, my names Gavroche. These are my people, here’s my patch. Not much to look at, nothing posh. Nothing that you’d call up to scratch. This is my school, my high society, here in the slums of Saint Michele. We live on crumbs of humble piety, tough on the teeth, but what the hell! Think you’re poor? Think you’re free? Follow me. Follow me!
Enjolras: Can you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men; it is the music of the people who will not be slaves again! Enjolras: Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men; it is the music of the people who will not be slaves again!
Marius: Empty Chair at Empty Tables, where my friends will meet no more.
Javert: 5 years for what you did! the rest because you tried to escape…yes prisoner 24601! Javert: Five years for what you did! The rest because you tried to escape… yes prisoner 24601! Javert: Five years for what you did! The rest because you tried to run… yes prisoner 24601! Jean Valjean: My name is Jean Valjean!! Jean Valjean: My name is Jean Valjean! Javert: And I’m Javert! Do not forget my name! Do not forget me…24601 Javert: And I’m Javert! Do not forget my name! Do not forget me… 24601.
Army Officer: You at the barricades, listen to this! The people of Paris sleep in their beds! You have no chance, no chance at all! Why throw your lives away?
Bishop: May the Lord bless the food we eat today. Bless our dear sister and our honoured guest. Please, eat. Where are you travelling to my brother? Jean Valjean: Pontarlier. Bishop: Is that where your family is? Jean Valjean: No. The destination is compulsory. That is more the law sends me. I have no home. Bishop: Then let this be your home, for as long as you need it.
Marius: Life without Cosette means nothing Marius: Life without Cosette means nothing.
Fantine: I dreamed a dream in time gone by… when hope was high, and life worth living…
Marius: Here they talked of revolution Here it was they lit the flame Here they sang about tomorrow And tomorrow never came Marius: Here they talked of revolution. Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about ‘tomorrow’ And tomorrow never came.
Eponine: One more day all on my own. One more day with him not caring.
Bishop: He speaks the truth.
Enjolras: I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last? I’ve never heard him I’ve never heard him ‘ooh’ and ‘aah!’ Grantaire: I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last? I’ve never heard him I’ve never heard him ‘ooh’ and ‘aah!’
Cosette: What’s the matter with you Cosette? Have you been too much on your own?
Eponine: A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now Eponine: A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.
Enjolras: Marius, you’re late.
Javert: I am reaching, but I fall And the stars are black and cold As I stare into the void Of a world that cannot hold I’ll escape now from the world From the world of Jean Valjean. There is nowhere I can turn There is no way to go on…. Javert: I am reaching, but I fall And the stars are black and cold As I stare into the void Of a world that cannot hold I’ll escape now from the world From the world of Jean Valjean. There is nowhere I can turn There is no way to go on…
Inspector Javert: Valjean, at last, we see each other plain…M’sieur le Mayor,’ you’ll wear a different chain…
Eponine: Every word that he says is a dagger in me! In my life, there’s been no one like him anywhere. Anywhere, where he is. If he asked, I’d be his.
Inspector Javert: A man like you can never change Inspector Javert: A man like you can never change.
Fantine: Come to me, Cosette, the light is fading, don’t you see, the evening star appearing…
Inspector Javert: Do not forget my name.
Courtfeyrac: Are you alright? Gavroche: That was my sister.
Enjolras: The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France Enjolras: The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France.
Jean Valjean: Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in heaven has in store, one more dawn, one more day, one day more!
Enjolras: It is time for us all To decide who we are… Do we fight for the right To a night at the opera now? Have you asked of yourselves What’s the price you might pay? Is it simply a game For rich young boys to play? The color of the world Is changing Day by day… Red – the blood of angry men! Black – the dark of ages past! Red – a world about to dawn! Black – the night that ends at last!
Eponine: On my own, pretending he’s beside me. All alone, I walk with him ’till morning.
Gavroche: General Lamarque is dead!
Inspector Javert: One day more to revolution, we will nip it in the bud! We’ll be ready for these schoolboys; they will wet themselves with blood!
Javert: 24601!
Eponine: Cosette. Now I remember. Cosette. How can it be? We children together. Look what’s become of me!
Thernardier: Let’s not haggle for darling Colette! Madame Thenardier: (SOFTLY) Cosette! Madame Thenardier: Cosette! Thernardier: Cosette.
Inspector Javert: Now prisonor 24601, your time is up and your parole’s begun!
Jean Valjean: God on high, hear my prayer. In my need, you have always been there.
