Top 40 Edmond Rostand Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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!”

— Edmond Rostand

2. “I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”

— Edmond Rostand

3. “To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.”

— Edmond Rostand

4. “All our souls are written in our eyes.”

— Edmond Rostand

5. “It is at night that faith in light is admirable.”

— Edmond Rostand

6. “A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving.”

— Edmond Rostand

7. “I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.”

— Edmond Rostand

8. “A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”

— Edmond Rostand

9. “A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain...”

— Edmond Rostand

10. “Your neck. I want to kiss it.”

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11. “A great nose may be an index Of a great soul.”

— Edmond Rostand

12. “A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the ‘I’ in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.”

— Edmond Rostand

13. “To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.”

— Edmond Rostand

14. “My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.”

— Edmond Rostand

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

— Edmond Rostand

16. “I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!”

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17. “Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.”

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18. “After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it’s a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.”

— Edmond Rostand

19. “Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!”

— Edmond Rostand

20. “I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!”

— Edmond Rostand

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

— Edmond Rostand

22. “A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.”

— Edmond Rostand

23. “Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn’t love you.”

— Edmond Rostand

24. “A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.”

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25. “Your name hangs in my heart like a bell’s tongue.”

— Edmond Rostand

26. “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.”

— Edmond Rostand

27. “My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men’s hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.”

— Edmond Rostand

28. “Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture.”

— Edmond Rostand

29. “I am never away from you. Even now, I shall not leave you. In another world, I shall be still that one who loves you, loves you beyond measure.”

— Edmond Rostand

30. “And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you’d read this letter with your lips.”

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31. “A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that’s given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.”

— Edmond Rostand

32. “To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache is therefore a timid heroism, like the smile with which one excuses one’s superiority.”

— Edmond Rostand

33. “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!”

— Edmond Rostand

34. “She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she’s not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature – a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush!”

— Edmond Rostand

35. “A man stands straighter under hostile eyes.”

— Edmond Rostand

36. “You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.”

— Edmond Rostand

37. “I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!”

— Edmond Rostand

38. “And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb ‘to love.’ A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee’s brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover’s lip: ‘Forever.”

— Edmond Rostand

39. “Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.”

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40. “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!”

— Edmond Rostand

41. “Christian gets to kiss Roxane, and Cyrano gets to pluck lots of rhetorical flowers while keeping his precious plume unblemished.”

— Edmond Rostand

42. “I know that in the end you’ll overwhelm me, but I’ll still fight you as long as there’s a breath in my body... Yes, you’ve robbed me of everything: the laurels of glory, the roses of love! But there’s one thing you can’t take away from me. When I go to meet God this evening, and doff my hat before the lofty gates, my salute will sweep the blue threshold of heaven, because I’ll still have one thing intact, without a stain, something that I’ll take with me in spite of you: My white plume.”

— Edmond Rostand

43. “If our friend steals our ideas, it proves that he esteems us: He would not take them unless he thought they were good. We are wrong in being annoyed that, for want of children of his own, he adopts ours.”

— Edmond Rostand

44. “CYRANO Yes, it is there, you may be sure, I shall be sent for my Paradise. More than one soul of those I have loved must be apportioned there... There I shall find Socrates and Galileo!”

— Edmond Rostand

45. “Yes, I’d rather be shy than smart; a foolish diffidence constrains my heart. I reach for a star; then, from a morbid dread of ridicule, I pluck a flower instead.”

— Edmond Rostand

46. “Wit now would be to insult the night, nature itself, the jasmine scent, the moonlight; one glimpse of the heavens and their infinite spaces reveals the absurdity of our artifices. What scares me is that the alchemy we share may fail to distil true love, the real, the rare, wasting its time on fanciful pastimes while our sophistication destroys our dreams.”

— Edmond Rostand

47. “If we could once forget the conventional things, the roses, the pierced hearts, the fairy wings and get to something larger, something true; instead of sipping from exhausted springs to drink from the full river in its flow.”

— Edmond Rostand