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.

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?

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.

If you don't REALLY miss someone, it's because you never REALLY connected very deeply with them.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

The brave venture anything.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.