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Les Miserables Quotes & Sayings

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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.' — Samantha Barks

Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome — Victor Hugo

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

There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables. — Victor Hugo

Joy is the reflex of terror. — Victor Hugo

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched. — Victor Hugo

As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. — Victor Hugo

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat. — Victor Hugo

A breath of Paris preserves the soul. — Victor Hugo

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

A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open. — Victor Hugo

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. — Victor Hugo

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke.
Les Miserables — Victor Hugo

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.
Les Miserables, page 674 — Victor Hugo

To love your neighbors is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables — Victor Hugo

Morality is truth in full bloom. — Victor Hugo

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office. — Eric Fellner

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo

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. — Victor Hugo

There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search. — Victor Hugo

The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints. — Victor Hugo

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too. — Lea Michele

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo

There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas. — Victor Hugo

Nobody loves the light like the blind man. — Victor Hugo

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble. — Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire — Victor Hugo

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories. — Larry King

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

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. — Victor Hugo

France is great because she is France. — Victor Hugo

In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

There is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables — Victor Hugo

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known. — Les Miserables

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends — Victor Hugo

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. — Ashley Tisdale

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

Make thought a whirlwind. — Victor Hugo

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables — Victor Hugo