Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness.

How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?

This can’t be a coincidence, and there’s no longer any doubt in my mind. I am in a horror story.

He raised his wine for a toast. “To the Exquisite Nightmare.

Maybe being here won’t be so bad after all… as long as I can avoid the music, the bloodthirsty diva duo, and the phantom’s shadow lurking around every corner.

I don’t want to blend, ” Etalon whispered. “I want to belong.

He’d walked as a ghost in the gloomy bowels of this opera house for so long, darkness had become his brother, which was fitting, since his father was the night, and sunlight their forgotten friend.

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul

The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.