Gaston Leroux Quotes

“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!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre.”
― Gaston Leroux

“Now Leroux, what think you
Of this twist to the story?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

“¿Sensación? ¿Sentimiento? Había en ello algo en que se mezclaban lo físico y moral.”
― Gaston Leroux, El fantasma de la ópera

“Hay momentos en los que la excesiva inocencia parece tan monstruosa que se vuelve odiosa”
― Gaston Leroux, El fantasma de la ópera

“Si hay cosas de las que uno no se jacta, hay otras por las que se sufre demasiada humillación al ser compadecido”
― Gaston Leroux, El fantasma de la ópera

“It was the evening on which MM Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a farewell gala performance to make their retirement.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Gaston Leroux claimed that Erik’s character was based on fact. In my novel, let your mind imagine that Catherine’s is too…if you dare!”
― Samantha, Life After Phantom