Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostandwas a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is known best for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques, was adapted to the musical comedy, The Fantasticks...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 April 1868
CountryFrance
men telling-the-truth pessimist
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
fighting winning men
A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain...
heart men mustache
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.
men mustache spurs
My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
cutting men ideas
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
witty men noses
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
goes pessimism pessimists point sincerity
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists
love yesterday tomorrow
I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
kissing kiss-me dots
A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving.
love i-am-what-i-am please
I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.
hero faces danger
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
kissing promise dots
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.
inspiring kissing secret
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.
family sweet heart
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.