Les-miserables Quotes

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. E...

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had ...

Make thought a whirlwind.

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

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

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...

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

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...

Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are ...

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: tha...

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

Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the l...

Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under w...

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set...

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians name...

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. T...