Les Misérables (1935)

Charles Laughton: Inspector Emile Javert

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Quotes 

• Inspector Javert : You know what is going to happen, don't you? I will take you in the end!

• Inspector Javert : Right or wrong, the law is the law and it must be obeyed to the letter.

• 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 : [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 : I'm ready. All I ask is a few minutes to say good-bye.

  Inspector Javert : The law allows you nothing.