Top 35 Bergerac Quotes
#2. When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.
Rory Kinnear
#3. Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head.
Dennis Miller
#4. Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
Bela Lugosi
#5. Speak to me ... be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize! ... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water ... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
#6. Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike
#8. We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#9. This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#10. Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
Cyrano De Bergerac
#12. 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.'
Cyrano De Bergerac
#14. God has not given us a spirit of fear.
Tyler Perry
#15. The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.
Glenn Dickey
#16. If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
John Irving
#17. We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning
Reid Hoffman
#18. The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?
Noah Hawley
#19. Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#20. The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#21. I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#22. My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#24. We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#25. My heart had made its decision and there was no going back. Still, it was hard not to be all bitter and betrayed over his announcement. I didn't even have the luxury of being able to get blind rotten drunk. And believe me, dealing with all this sober sucked.
Kylie Scott
#26. A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#27. A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#28. I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.
Keren Ann
#29. Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.
Mason Cooley
#31. The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#32. Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.
Sun Tzu
#34. To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#35. Just so you know, you can call me anything you want - just as long as you always call me.
Gena Showalter
