The Beauty and the Beast Quotes

“Ha!" exclaimed Beauty, almost angrily, "know that I would lay down my life to save his, and that this Monster, who is only one in form, has a heart so humane that he should not be persecuted for a deformity which he refrains from rendering more hideous by his actions. I will not repay his kindness with such black ingratitude.”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, La Belle et la Bête

“She bade us remember that it was cowardice to succumb to the greatest misfortunes, and that with time and courage there was no evil that could not be remedied.”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, Beauty and the Beast

“The greatest happiness fades when it is continual, derived always from the same source, and we find ourselves exempted from fear and from hope.”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, La Belle et la Bête

“To see you was instantly to love you. Entering your apartment, tremblingly, my joy was excessive to find that you could behold me with greater intrepidity than I could behold myself.”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, The Beauty and the Beast

“The enemy was pursued with such vigor that he abandoned his camp, lost his baggage, and more than three-fourths of his army, while the loss on our side was inconsiderable.”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, The Beauty and the Beast

“The Unknown, interrupting her, inquired what she would do if the Monster endeavored to kill him; and, if it were decreed that one of them must slay the other, to which would she afford assistance? “I love you only,” she replied; “but extreme as is my affection for you, it cannot weaken my gratitude to the Beast, and if I found myself placed in so fatal a position, I would escape the misery which the result of such a combat would inflict on me, by dying by my own hand.”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, The Beauty and the Beast

“Ah! And what do you think will become of you after his departure?” “What it may please you,” said she; “my life is at your disposal, and I submit blindly to the fate which you may doom me to.” “I am satisfied with your submission,” replied the Beast;”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, The Beauty and the Beast

“The Beast considered for a moment, then, speaking in a milder tone, he said to him, “I will pardon thee, but upon condition that thou wilt give me one of thy daughters—I require some one to repair this fault.” “Just Heaven!” replied the merchant; “how can I keep my word? Could I be so inhuman as to save my own life at the expense of one of my children’s? Under what pretext could I bring her here?”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, The Beauty and the Beast