110 Quotes by Gaston Leroux

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

He looked up in despair at the starry sky, he struck his burning chest with his fist; he loved and he was not loved!

They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Are people so unhappy when they love?''Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!

No, no, you have driven me mad! When I thinkthat I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

They both had the same calm and dreamy little cast of mind. They delighted in stories, in old Breton legends, and their favorite sport was to go and ask for them at the cottage-doors, like beggars:"Ma'am..." or, "Kind gentleman... have you a little story to tell us, please?"And it seldom happened that they did not have one "given" them; for nearly every old Breton grandame has, at least once in her life, seen the "korrigans" dance by moonlight on the heather.