110 Quotes by Gaston Leroux

Then why waste your time here with me? You clearly love him! Your fears, your terror, all of that is still born of love, and the love of the most exquisite kind, the kind one does not even admit to oneself

Up with you!... No!... No, I will go up myself, dear!""Oh, very well, I will go up. Let me go!""Oh, my darling, my darling!... How sweet of you!... How nice of you to save me the exertion at my age!

The envelope was covered with mud and unstamped. It bore the words “To be handed to M. le Vicomte Raoul de Chagny,” with the address in pencil. It must have been flung out in the hope that a passer-by would pick up the note and deliver it, which was what happened.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

The voice without a body went on singing, and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more powerful.

If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love.

The opera ghost really existed.

The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade. When.