Edmond Rostand Quotes

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• A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
• The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?
• My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the…
• I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
• A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
• It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
• I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.
• To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that…
• After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal…
• Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths…
• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth…
• All our souls are written in our eyes.
• And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.
• I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I…
• Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his…
• And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a…
• How obvious it is now--the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you... All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice…
• ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness…
• Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams…

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