127 Quotes About Les-miserables

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

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

He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without

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

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

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

I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people