# The most famous lines from Cyrano de Bergerac

The nose tirade, the duel ballade, the cadets of Gascony and the panache: the best-known lines of Edmond Rostand's play (1897).

- 12 votes · 12 items
- May 29, 2023 · Théo Rousseau
- https://even.best/en/l/4574/the-most-famous-lines-from-cyrano-de-bergerac

## Top 12

1. **It's a rock! A peak! A cape! What am I saying, a cape? It's a peninsula!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cyrano, the nose tirade, Act I.
2. **These are the cadets of Gascony, of Carbon de Castel-Jaloux; shameless swordsmen and liars.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cyrano, Act II.
3. **But one does not give up the honour of being a target.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cyrano, Act IV.
4. **I'll have failed at everything, even my death.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Cyrano, Act V.
5. **At the end of the refrain, I hit home.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cyrano, the duel ballade, Act I.
6. **She is coming. I already feel booted in marble, gloved in lead!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cyrano facing death, Act V.
7. **Ah, no! That's a bit short, young man!** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Cyrano to the viscount, start of the nose tirade, Act I.
8. **Rogue, rascal, ridiculous flat-footed oaf! – Ah? And I am Cyrano-Savinien-Hercule de Bergerac.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The viscount and Cyrano, Act I.
9. **Displeasing is my pleasure. I like to be hated.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cyrano, Act II.
10. **Oh, I've done better since.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cyrano to Roxane, who admires his hundred defeated men, Act II.
11. **A kiss, when all is said and done, what is it? A vow made a little closer, a more precise promise.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cyrano, the balcony scene, Act III.
12. **But one does not fight in hope of success! No, no, it's far finer when it's useless!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cyrano, Act V.

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