u/YoungRevolutionary27

I’m currently collecting a list of best quotes from les mis. I’m sharing them with the cast of my local production so I try to alternate quotes that are funny or unhinged with quotes that are profound or moving. What are your favourites?

Some of the ones I’ve pulled are:

- So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
- Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII!
-General, I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife who is in labour.
-The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die.
-You've got a beard like a man, mother, but I have claws like a woman
-“this barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.”
-"A pretty woman! But badly dressed" "Bah! He does not mean me. I am well dressed and ugly."
-“He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.”
-What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul!
-You are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it.
-The beautiful is a useful as the useful. More so, perhaps.
-Both had wings, the one like an angle, the other like a goose.
-Courfeyrac: What are you? Marius: A democrat-Bonapartist. C: The grey hue of a reassured rat.
-Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people."
-The toad always has his eyes fixed on heaven in order to watch the bird in its flight.
-Citizen, my mother is the Republic.
-Marius had two friends
-Marius was at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow and well-opened and passionate nostrils.
-E: Are you good for anything? R: "I have a vague ambition in that direction." "You do not believe in everything." "I believe in you." "Grantaire will your do me a service?" "Anything. I'll black your boots." "Well don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your absinthe." (…) "I can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in hand." "Be serious" "I am wild." "Grantaire, I consent to try you."
-I have come to sleep with you.
-"We are going to fling the government to the earth." "That is good."
-Laisgle and Joly lived together, ate together, slept together. They had everything in common, even Joly's mistress
-Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of living, and of dying.
-A National Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying "It seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower."
-It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.