Edmond Rostand Short Quotes

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Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.

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

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

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Call no one. Leave me not;
When you come back, I should be gone for aye.

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A great nose indicates a great man—
Genial, courteous, intellectual,
Virile, courageous.

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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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I fall back
dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red,
At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.

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Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,... The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!

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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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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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My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

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And sounding in advance its victory,
My song jets forth so clear, so proud, so peremptory,
That the horizon, seized with a rosy trembling,
Obeys me.

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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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Well when I write my book, and tell the tale of my adventures — all these little stars that shake out of my cloak — I must save those to use for asterisks!

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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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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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