The Phantom of the Opera Quotes

“No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think
that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Lastly- and this was the most pitiless torture of all- we heard the rain and it was not raining! This was an infernal invention... Oh, I knew well enough how Erik obtained it! He filled with little stones a very long and narrow box, broken up inside with wooden and metal projections. The stones, in falling, struck against these projections and rebounded from one to another; and the result was a series of pattering sounds that exactly imitated a rainstorm.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Reputations are often undeserved,' said Moncharmin. 'I have the reputation of knowing all about music, but I don't the difference between the treble clef and the bass clef.' 'Don't worry, you've never had that reputation,' Richard assured him.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera