"Cyrano de Bergerac" Quotes
A witty and eloquent soldier and poet named Cyrano de Bergerac helps his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian to woo the beautiful Roxane, with whom Cyrano is also secretly in love.
classics | 224 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous, and liberal man.
A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
To sing, to laugh, to dream, to walk in my own way and be alone, free, with an eye to see things as they are, a voice that means manliness.
What, when she turned to look at you, did you see in her eyes? Nothing. A blank. Yet you felt as if she were whispering: 'I've been dreaming of you, my hero.'
I shall stay here. And here alone, my life shall be filled with poetry, and music, and wit, and shall be brave in the face of death.
I'm not tall, it's just that my head is so high it makes me look that way.
Ah, now I know why I loved him so! He was so near my soul that he was alway my own self!
I am a poet. I like to lie.
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
The sweetest flower always blooms in the face of adversity.





