Jean valjean Quote by Victor Hugo

“After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from…

— Victor Hugo

“Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that personal expiation, the expiation for one’s self. But he did not understand that of…

— Victor Hugo

“Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings…

— Victor Hugo

“Jean Valjean opened his eyes and looked at the bishop with an expression which no human tongue can describe.”

— Victor Hugo

“Had he not had a greater purpose, the saving not of his life but of his soul, the resolve to become a good and…

— Victor Hugo

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who…

— Victor Hugo

“Jean ValJean. I hated that fucker.”

— Bill Belichick

“If Jean Valjean had me representing him,” he likes to say, “then Les Misérables would’ve only been six pages long. Dismissed—Loaf of Bread Pilfery.”

— Paul Beatty

“He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601.”

— Victor Hugo

“he’d come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they’d done.”

— Louise Penny

“Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to…

— Émile Zola

“Poor Victor! poor Victor!” she thought; and then she tried mentally to project herself into the situation of the wretched, remorseful Frenchwoman, the coquette…

— Rhoda Broughton