♡ Les Misérables Sentence Starters - Act 1 ♡
Quotes from Act 1 of the musical ‘Les Misérables’! Feel free to adjust as needed
“Don’t look ‘em in the eye.”
“You’re here until you die.”
“Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer.”
“You’re standing in your grave.”
“Your time is up and your parole’s begun.”
“I stole a loaf of bread.”
“My sister’s child was close to death.”
“In their eyes I see their fear.”
“I’m not some kind of dog.”
“The old fool trusted me.”
“I played the grateful serf.”
“I commend you for your duty.”
“I am reaching, but I fall. And the night is closing in.”
“At the end of the day you’re another day older.”
“Sitting flat on your bum doesn’t buy any bread.”
“Take a look at his trousers, you see where he stands.”
“Give that letter to me it is none of your business.”
“What is this fighting all about?”
“I am the Mayor of this town.”
“You can bet she’s earning her keep sleeping around.”
“I might have known the bitch could bite.”
“I might have guessed your little secret.”
“You play a virgin in the light but need no urgin’ in the night.”
“She’s been laughing at you while she’s having her men.”
“I dreamed that love would never die.”
“Then I was young and unafraid.”
“I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I’m living.”
“Life has killed the dream I dreamed.”
“I smell women, smell ‘em in the air.”
“Cheer up dearie, show a happy face.”
“I might’ve known, there is always some man.”
“I’ll kill you, you bastard.”
“If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned.”
“Must my name until I die be no more than an alibi?”
“I was born inside a jail.”
“I am from the gutter too.”
“I swear to you, I will be there.”
“I know a place where no-one’s lost.”
“Crying at all is not allowed.”
“How stupid the things that we do!”
“Like mother, like daughter, the scum of the street.”
“You look very well in that little blue hat.”
“Please do not send me out alone.”
“Enough of that or I’ll forget to be nice.”
“I used to dream that I would meet a prince.”
“Thinks he’s quite a lover but there’s not much there.”
“God knows how I’ve lasted living with this bastard in the house!”
“Raise it up the master’s arse!”
“There are treacherous people about.”
“Mind the police don’t catch you out!”
“Don’t judge a girl on how she looks. I know a lot of things, I do!”
“I like the way you always tease.”
“Stay on the job and watch out for the law.”
“It’s the police, disappear!”
“In the absence of a victim, dear inspector, may I go?”
“You look as if you’ve seen a ghost.”
“Red - The blood of angry men! Black - The dark of ages past!”
“I feel my soul on fire!”
“Do we have the guns we need?”
“Do you hear the people sing?”
“Does he know I’m alive?”
“You shut your mouth, you’ll get what’s yours.”
“Why’s she hanging about you?”
“One more day all on my own.”
“We will nip it in the bud.”
“Most of them are goners so they won’t miss much.”
“I did not live until today.”
“How can I live when we are parted?”
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