Edmond Rostand Quotes

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• A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmed, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear, a moment of infinity humming like a bee, a communion tasting of flowers, a way of breathing in a little of the heart and tasting a little of the soul with the edge of the lips!

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  Taken, Flower, Heart

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• The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?

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  Dream, Life Changing, What Is Life

  'La Princesse Lointaine' (1895) act 1, sc. 4

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• I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

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  Cutting, Men, Ideas

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• It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

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  Night, Light, Admirable

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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.

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  Witty, Men, Noses

  'Cyrano de Bergerac' (1897) act 1, sc. 1

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• My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

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  Stars, Fear, Flower

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• I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

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  Love, I Am What I Am, Please

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• 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 feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!

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  Strong, War, Heart

  Edmond Rostand (1951). “Cyrano de Bergerac: a new version in English verse”

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• She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair.

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  Lying, Paris, Perfection

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• A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

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  Kissing, Secret, Ears

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• To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

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  Moral, Pleasure, Manners

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• I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

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  Stakes, Dies

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

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  Men, Telling The Truth, Pessimist

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• 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 rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.

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  Love, Communication, Flower

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

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  Hero, Faces, Danger

  Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

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  Men, Mustache, Spurs

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• A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

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  Fashion, Taken, Flower

  Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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• A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

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  Soul, Noses, May

  Edmond Rostand (2000). “Cyrano De Bergerac”

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• You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.

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  Believe, Doubt, I Believe

  Edmond Rostand (1910). “Chantecler”

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• A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving.

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  Kissing, Dots, Lips

  Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

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  Fashion, Song, War

  EDMOND ROSTAND (1910). “CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS”

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• No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

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  Love You, Lasts, Fairy Tale

  Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.178, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• All our souls are written in our eyes.

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  Eye, Soul, Written

  EDMOND ROSTAND (1923). “CYRANO DE BERGERAC”

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• And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.

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  Kissing, Letters, Lips

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• 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 colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.

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  Beautiful, Hands, Imagination

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