Marius Quotes

• The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

  Gaius Marius

  Law, Arms, Speak

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Kissing, Giving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1031, First Avenue Editions

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• Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Dark, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.614, Wordsworth Editions

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• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

  Anne Rice

  Lying, Anger, Weakness

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love You, Believe, Littles

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.778, Wordsworth Editions

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• Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.

  Stuart Townsend

  Teacher, Dark, Years

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• Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Plunge, Cosette

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

  Conn Iggulden

  Men, Silent, Despise

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Believe, Love You

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• I absolutely never thought I would! But it's something to look forward to in my career. I'm not just the young, leading guy who falls in love, simple and naive. Even just doing Enjolras recently in Les Mis. I used to cover Marius and thought: "Oh, that's simple. What I should be doing." But then when I got Enjolras, I hadn't even thought about it. He's more powerful, sure of himself, a leader. It was nice! It was much harder singing, passionate, declamatory. Which was awesome - and now this!

  Max von Essen

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Nice

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Passion, Night

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Strange, Cosette

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Education, Stupid, Pride

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