Les Misérables (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2018)

Hayley Carmichael: Madame Magloire

Quotes 

• Bishop : And, really, do we need even a wooden fork or spoon to dip a piece of bread into a bowl of milk?

  Madame Magloire : And to think what might have happened last night. Letting a wild beast like that into your house, we're lucky all he did was steal.

• Madame Magloire : Have you heard what they're saying, Monseigneur? All the town's talking about it.

  Bishop : About what?

  Madame Magloire : The bad man that's roaming the town. They said he was a desperado with a terrible face.

  Bishop : I daresay a man can't help his face.

• Bishop : You have suffered a great deal, my friend.

  Jean Valjean : Chained and shackled night and day, beaten for a word, beaten for a look, beaten for nothing. For 19 years. And now the yellow passport, so they've still got me. But this is, uh...

  [looking around] 

  Jean Valjean : Different. This is like I'm dreaming. Is this a trick?

  Madame Magloire : Monsieur, the bishop treats everyone the same.

  Bishop : Yes, God tells us to love our fellow men.

  Jean Valjean : How can I love my fellow man when he treats me worse than a dog? It's easy for you. You can afford to be kind and gentle. You can afford to share your food and wine. Am I right?

  Bishop : Yes, of course you're right. Absolutely right, it is easy for me. But consider this: even if the world has done you a great injustice, does it really serve you to have a heart full of bitterness and hatred?

  Jean Valjean : How can I not have a heart full of bitterness and hatred? I'd like to see you after 19 years in the hulks. So don't preach to me about God and love!

  Bishop : Yeah, I beg your pardon, forgive me. I should have... considered your feelings. But you don't think it possible that kindness and love can change a man?

  Jean Valjean : No.

• Bishop : [giving his silver candlesticks to Valjean]  Here you are. Put them in your knapsack.

  Madame Magloire : Monseigneur, what does this man want with our candlesticks?

  Bishop : I assume he's going to sell them for as much as he can get.

  [Valjean takes them] 

  Bishop : Don't forget, don't ever forget, you promise to use the proceeds to become an honest man.

  Jean Valjean : I don't remember that.

  Bishop : Nevertheless, it's what you want, isn't it? To lead a good life?

  Jean Valjean : No. I don't know.

  Bishop : Jean Valjean, my brother, you do not belong to evil anymore, you belong to good. I have bought your soul with that silverware and these candlesticks.

  Jean Valjean : No.

  Bishop : Nothing to be done about it, I'm afraid. You belong to God now, Jean Valjean. Go in peace. God be with you.

• Madame Magloire : The silverware basket, it's gone.

  Bishop : No, no, it's, it's, uh, here. Look, over there.

  Madame Magloire : [finding it atop a shrub]  What about the silverware?

  Bishop : Ah, now there, I, I can't help you, I'm afraid.

  Madame Magloire : [looking around]  It's been stolen. Lord save us, that man who was here last night, he must have taken it. Ungrateful beast, after all your kindness.

  Bishop : When you think about it, was all that silver really ours in the first place?

  Madame Magloire : [frustrated]  Yes, it was. Of course it was. More to the point, what are we to eat with now?