110 Quotes by Gaston Leroux

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Raoul suffered, for she was very beautiful and he was shy and he dared not confess his love, even to himself.

My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them

¿Sensación? ¿Sentimiento? Había en ello algo en que se mezclaban lo físico y moral.

But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?

Oh, tonight I gave you my soul and I am dead!" Christine replied."Your soul is a beautiful thing, child," replied the grave man's voice, "and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.

The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.It was a gorgeous spring evening. Clouds, which had just received their gossamer robe of gold and purple from the setting sun, drifted slowly by;

Until then, in the depth of those eyes, all I had seen was the promise of death; it was the first time I saw the promise of life

... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...