110 Quotes by Gaston Leroux

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

Erik: Are you very tired?Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.

when a man", continued Raoul,"adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. ..""The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

You clearly love him! Your fears, your terror, all of that is still born of love, and love of that most exquisite kind, the kind that one does not admit even to oneself. The kind that gives you a thrill when you think of it.

It was the evening on which MM Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a farewell gala performance to make their retirement.

Celui-là ne sera jamais Parisien qui n’aura point appris à mettre un masque de joie sur ses douleurs et le « loup » de la tristesse, de l’ennui ou de l’indifférence sur son intime allégresse.

There is also something of the arrogant vain youth in him; [...] he loves nothing more than to reveal the truly prodigious ingenuity of his mind.