Edmond Rostand Quotes

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

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  Dream, Life Changing, What Is Life

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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

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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 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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• 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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  Flower, Taken, Heart

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

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  Kissing, Secret, Lips

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

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  Men, Telling The Truth, Pessimist

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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

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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

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

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  Believe, Doubt, I Believe

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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 great nose may be an index Of a great soul

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  Soul, Noses, May

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

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  Kissing, Kiss Me, Dots

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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

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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

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• 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 cobblestones.

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  Heart, Men, Mustache

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

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  Stakes, Dies

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• Your neck. I want to kiss it.

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  Kissing, Want, Necks

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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

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• Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.

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  Heart, Names, Bells

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• 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 Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.

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  Family, Sweet, Heart

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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

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