Les Miserables Quotes

Les Miserables Quote of the day

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

Make thought a whirlwind.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

You are never fully dressed until you put on a smile!