when a man", continued Raoul, "adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. ..""The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

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

He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.

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!

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

Erik: Are you very tired?Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

Music is the child of prayer the companion of religion.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

We have a unique chance to heal divisions, give everyone a stake in the future and set an example as the most creative, innovative and progressive country in the world.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.