- Jean Valjean: How do you know I won't murder you in the night?
- Bishop Bienvenu: [remains calm] Well, how do you know I won't murder you?
- Jean Valjean: Nah...
- Bishop Bienvenu: You have faith in me it seems. And I must have faith in you, musn't I? Good night.
- Jean Valjean: [to an old woman] You want to know who I am? I'm a convict! Yeah! I served my sentence. Now my punishment begins, it seems. Look, in prison they gave me a bed of wood. Now I have one of stone.
- [laughs]
- Jean Valjean: That's what they do when they set you free!
- [laughs]
- Jean Valjean: Well, call the police, why don't you? Have me turned off this as well!
- Jean Valjean: Is it true I don't have to go back to the galleys? You--you let me go free?
- Bishop Bienvenu: Free? When is a man free? I wish someone would tell me.
- Jean Valjean: You never temper justice with mercy?
- Inspector Javert: No, we might as well understand each other, Monsieur Madeliene. I administer the law - good, bad, or indifferent - it's no business of mine, but the law to the letter!
- Enjolras: [inciting the crowd] We'll tear up the streets of Paris! If they've got bayonets, we've got knives!
- Jean Valjean: And me! Me! Have you nothing for me?
- Cosette: But you're my father. I mean I always think of you as my father. I know you're not really, but, don't you see, with Marius, it's different. It isn't just that lovely sense of companionship I have with you. It's - it's - well, it's the way every girl feels for the man who's going to marry her! You always knew I should have to leave you one day, didn't you?
- Jean Valjean: No one forgets that!
- Enjolras: [seeing an apparent stranger in the midst of the broiling student rebeels] Who are you?
- Inspector Javert: [absentmindedly as he looks in the crowd for Valjean] What'd ya say?
- Enjolras: Spy? Police!
- Inspector Javert: I might be a spy, and I'm certainly the police.
- [the students rush Javert and subdue him]
- Jean Valjean: [looking around the empty hallway] Javert? You're here! I know it! Where are you? Where are you?
- Jean Valjean: I'm ready. All I ask is a few minutes to say good-bye.
- Inspector Javert: The law allows you nothing.
- Jean Valjean: [holding the Bishop's candlesticks] Keep these always. Silver they say, but they're more than gold to me!
- Bishop Bienvenu: Long ago, Jean, I learned that life is to give, not to take. Let me give. And in return, promise me that you will give, also.