Les Misérables (Musical) Quotes and Quotation
Les Misérables (1980, 1985) a musical play based on one of the most acclaimed novels of all time, became one of the most successful and popular of modern plays in many productions around the world. This is but a small sampling of some of the expressions and dialog contained within a play that many cherish as the most magnificent adaptation ever made of a magnificent tale.
You Can Find quotes about Les Misérables (Musical), Famous quotes on Les Misérables (Musical), Quotation from Les Misérables (Musical).Work Song / Look Down
Don't look 'em in the eye
Look down, look down,
You're here until you die
JAVERT:You robbed a house.
VALJEAN: I broke a window pane.
It's there for people to see
Why should you get the same
As honest men like me?Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven
Surely something slipped your mind
You forgot I gave these also
Would you leave the best behind?
See in this some higher plan
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man
By the witness of the martyrs
By the Passion and the Blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have bought your soul for God!What Have I Done (Valjean's Soliloquy)
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number and murdered Valjean
When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?At The End of The Day
And that's all you can say for the life of the poorI Dreamed A Dream
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting…
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.Lovely Ladies
Smell 'em in the air
Think I'll drop my anchor
In that harbor over there
Waiting for a bite
Waiting for the customers
Who only come at night
Lovely ladies
Ready for the call
Standing up or lying down
Or any way at all
You're no grander than the rest of us
Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap
Join your sisters
Make money in your sleep!
Lying on a bed
Just as well they never see
The hate that's in your head
Don't they know they're making love
To one already dead!Fantine's Arrest
Please M'sieur, she's but that high
Holy God, is there no mercy?
If I go to jail she'll die!
Every day for twenty years
Let's have no more explanations
Save your breath and save your tearsThe Runaway Cart
You come from God, you are a saint.
Who can do what you have done
He's a convict from the chain gang
He's been ten years on the run
But he couldn't run forever
We have found his hideaway
And he's just been re-arrested
And he comes to court today.Who Am I? - The Trial
Why should I right this wrong
When I have come so far
And struggled for so long?
If I stay silent, I am damned!
Can I condemn this man to slavery
Pretend I do not feel his agony
This innocent who bears my face
Who goes to judgement in my place
How can I ever face myself again?
My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago
He gave me hope when hope was gone
He gave me strength to journey on.
I am Jean Valjean!Fantine's Death
And tell Cosette I love her
And I'll see her when I wake...The Confrontation
There is a duty that I'm sworn to do
You know nothing of my life
All I did was steal some bread
I'm a stronger man by far
There is power in me yet
My race is not yet run
I am warning you Javert
There is nothing I won't dare
If I have to kill you here
I'll do what must be done!
And the price you had to pay
Every man is born in sin
Every man must choose his way
You know nothing of Javert
I was born inside a jail
I was born with scum like you
I am from the gutter too!Castle On A Cloud
I like to go there in my sleep,
Aren't any floors for me to sweep,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
Holds me and sings a lullaby,
She's nice to see and she's soft to touch,
She says "Cosette, I love you very much."Master Of The House
Doesn't cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
Quick to catch yer eye
Never wants a passerby
To pass him by
Servant to the poor
Butler to the great
Comforter, philosopher,
And lifelong mate!The Bargain / The Waltz Of Treachery
Shall you carry our treasure away?
What a gem! What a pearl!
Beyond rubies is our little girl!
Have we done for her child what is best?
Shared our bread. Shared each bone.
Treated her like she's one of our own!
Fifteen hundred for your sacrifice.
Come, Cosette, say goodbye
Let us seek out some friendlier sky.Look Down
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down, look down,
Upon your fellow man!
Here in the slums of Saint Michele
We live on crumbs of humble piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
How long before the judgement day?
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades arise?Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season
Returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flame!The ABC Cafe- Red And Black
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don't let the wine go to your brains!
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
To decide who we are
Do we fight for the right
To a night at the opera now?
Have you asked of yourselves
What's the price you might pay?
Is it simply a game
For rich young boys to play?
The color of the world
Is changing day by day...
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!
You might know how it feels
To be struck to the bone
In a moment of breathless delight!
Had you been there tonight
You might also have known
How the world may be changed
In just one burst of light!
And what was right seems wrong
And what was wrong seems right!
I do not doubt you mean it well
But now there is a higher call.
Who cares about your lonely soul?
We strive toward a larger goal
Our little lives don't count at all!Do You Hear The People Sing
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!Rue Plumet - In My Life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years... years ago!
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is...
If he asked... I'd be hisA Heart Full of Love
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he'll never say
Not to me...
Not to me...
Not to me...One Day More
Raise the flag of freedom high!
Every man will be a king
Every man will be a king
There's a new world for the winning
There's a new world to be won.
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!On My Own
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to
Without a home, without a friend,
Without a face to say hello to.
And now the night is near
Now I can make believe he's here.
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head.
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
But every day I'm learning
All my life I've only been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!
But only on my own.Building The Barricade
No one is coming to help you to fight
You're on your own
You have no friends
Give up your guns - or die!
They will see the people rise!Little People
When little people fight
We may look easy pickings
But we've got some bite
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows up!
Every schoolboy to his sport
Death to each and every traitor
I renounce your people's court! A Little Fall Of Rain
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last.Night Of Anguish
What you want you always steal!
You would trade your life for mine.
Yes, Valjean, you want a deal!
Shoot me now for all I care!
If you let me go, beware,
You'll still answer to Javert!
I'm a man, no worse than any man.
You are free, and there are no conditions,
No bargains or petitions.
There's nothing that I blame you for
You've done your duty, nothing more.The Night / Drink With Me
Sing with me the songs we knew
Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads.
Here's to witty girls who went to out beds.
Here's to them and here's to you!
To the life that used to be
At the shrine of friendship, never say die
Let the wine of friendship never run dry
Here's to you and here's to meBring Him Home
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there
He is young
He's afraid
Let him rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring him home
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.
You can give
Let him be
Let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home.Dog Eats Dog
Where they kill for bones in the street
And God in His Heaven
He don't interfere
'Cause he's dead as the stiffs at my feet
I raise my eyes to see the heavens
And only the moon looks down
The harvest moon shines down!Javert's Suicide
To hold dominion over me?
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life. He gave me freedom.
I should have perished by his hand
It was his right.
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live... but live in hell.
Who never doubted all these years?
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow.
Is he from heaven or from hell?
And does he know
That granting me my life today
This man has killed me even so?Turning
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.
Where's that new world now the fighting's done?
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about 'tomorrow'
And tomorrow never came.
That I live and you are gone.
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.Valjean's Confession
She had enough of tears
She's never known the truth-
The story you must hear
Of years ago.Beggars at the Feast
Ain't it a treat?
Hob-nobbin' here
Among the elite?
Master of the dance!
Life is easy pickings
If you grab your chance.
Always get our share
Clear away the barricades
And we're still there!
We know where the wind is blowing
Money is the stuff we smell.
And when we're rich as Croesus
Jesus! Won't we see you all in hell!
Hear my prayer
Take me now
To thy care
Where You are
Let me be
Take me now
Take me there
Bring me home
Bring me home.
Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this day.
I'll obey,
I will try.
Where chains will never bind you
All your grief
At last, at last behind you.
And lead me to salvation.
Take my love,
For love is everlasting.
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God!Finale
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-share,
They will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward.
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!External Links: