Disney’s marvelous adaptations of Beauty and the Beast have captured the imaginations of viewers worldwide. If you add the various literary versions, it’s safe to say that the classic fairytale has inspired children for generations. If you love the fairytale and its movie adaptations, the following selection of wonderful Beauty and the Beast quotes is a great resource for you that brings back beloved memories. Enjoy reading!
The classic tale tells the story of an unlikely love and about gentleness that is unwillingly concealed behind beastly ugliness. Beauty and the Beast is about a self-centered Prince who is forced to embark on a journey of transforming his personality to become a better person. But it also tells the story of a poor woman who finds the love of her life by rather choosing a virtuous man instead of a handsome one.
“He’s no monster, Gaston; you are!”
Belle
The fairytale highlights the importance of looking past superficial characteristics when it comes to making friends and falling in love. It also shows the great rewards that come with having the courage to look beyond a person’s appearance to seek for that which can be found within.
These Beauty and the Beast Quotes bring back wonderful childhood memories
Beauty and the Beast is a masterwork of world literature and its movie adaptations transformed the classic story into iconic movies. By doing so, the movies have contributed to expanding the legacy of the fairytale.
105 Magical Beauty and the Beast Quotes
Have you ever felt the need for a fine selection of the very best quotes of one of your favorite childhood fairytales? We’ve got you covered with our list of the most inspirational Beauty and the Beast Quotes. These are the quotes that will bring back wonderful childhood memories.
Enjoy this collection of beauty and the beast quotes
1.
“I want adventure in the great wide somewhere! I want it more than I can tell!”
Belle
2.
“Take it with you so you’ll always have a way to look back… and remember me.”
Beast
3.
“Please… Don’t leave me. I love you.”
Belle
4.
“Don’t you see? She’s the one. The girl we have been waiting for. She has come to break the spell.”
Lumiere
5.
“Who’d have ever thought that this could be? True that he’s no Prince Charming But there’s something in him that I simply didn’t see.”
Belle
6.
“Think of the one thing that you’ve always wanted. Now find it in your mind’s eye and feel it in your heart.”
Beast
7.
“She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.”
Narrator
8.
“Here’s where she meets Prince Charming, but she won’t discover that it’s him ’til chapter three!”
Belle
9.
“Master, we all understand how you feel about Christmas. But when a woman gives a man a gift, she’s saying, “I care about you.”
Lumiere
10.
“Tale as old as time, tune as old as song, bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong.”
Mrs. Potts
11.
“The people think I’m odd. So, I know how it feels to be…different. And I know how lonely that can be.”
Belle
12.
“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”
Beast
13.
“Since you are so kind as to think of me, be so kind as to bring me a rose, for as none grow hereabouts, they are a kind of rarity.”
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
14.
“I’m very sorry Gaston, but I just don’t deserve you.”
Belle
15.
“Maybe she needed someone to show her how to live and he needed someone to show him how to love.”
N.R. Hart
16.
“And for once it might be grand to have someone understand I want so much more than they’ve got planned.”
Beast
17.
“This is a tale of a beauty much deeper than that. It is the story of two people drawn together under the most interesting of circumstances, two people who learn to truly see what matters only after they meet each other and their tale—one both as old as time and as fresh as a rose—begins.”
Elizabeth Rudnick
18.
“Can anybody be happy if they aren’t free?”
Belle
19.
“And here I was thinking you were an utterly uneducated beast,” Belle said teasingly.
“I am a prince,” he responded with hauteur.”
Liz Braswell
20.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”
Belle
21.
“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”
Robin McKinley
22.
“The master’s not as terrible as he appears!”
Mrs. Pott
23.
“For the longest time after the curse fell, I did not know if I was a beast who dreamed of being a man, or a man who dreamed he was a beast.”
Leife Shallcross
24.
“No. You would never hurt me.”
The Beast gave a wan smile… and then leaned over and kissed her on the forehead.
“I would kill myself first,” he whispered.”
Liz Braswell
25.
“You are the wildest, most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen! Nobody deserves you…”
Gaston
26.
“She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.”
Rosalind
27.
“I want much more than this provincial life.”
Belle
28.
“Belle: Where is he?
Gaston: When we return to the village, you will marry me.
Belle: Never!”
Beauty and the Beast
29.
“Try the grey stuff, it’s delicious! Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes!”
Lumiere
30.
“He fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?”
Narrator
31.
“If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.”
Aya Ling
32.
“My dear Belle, you’re so ahead of your time. This is a small village, and it’s small-minded, as well. But small also means safe.”
Maurice
33.
“I will escape. I promise.”
Belle
34.
“A ferocious growl drew my gaze to the back of the room, where a hairy beast wore a yellow ball gown. I tried to block out the memory of Beauty in that dress earlier this evening.”
Betsy Schow
35.
“Belle found she could look back. And not blush. And not have to look away.”
Liz Braswell
36.
“New and a bit alarming. Who’d have ever thought this could be? True that he’s no Prince Charming but there’s something in him that I simply didn’t see.”
Belle
37.
“If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it.”
Cogsworth
38.
“It was her favorite story, that she remembers, but she would be hard-pressed to retell it now, faithfully, as it had been told to her. All she could recall were frayed, sleep-watered images of a forgotten castle in the middle of a wild forest, stone statues, crimson roses, and a dark, animal presence never seen, but which stained her memory of the tale, even past its edges to the daylight after.”
Ava Zavora
39.
“How does a moment last forever? How can a story never die?
It is love we must hold on to, never easy, but we try
Sometimes our happiness is captured, somehow a time and place stand still,
Love lives on inside our hearts, and always will.”
Maurice
40.
“The Beast looked at her with wry amusement. “Since you’re the clever one here and haven’t come up with a cunning plan, I was going to suggest brute force. Like we’re a castle under siege, fighting them off. That’s what I know.”
Liz Braswell
41.
“We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think ? for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.”
E. Lockhart
42.
“Now I know she’ll never leave me, even as she fades from view
She will still inspire me, be a part of everything I do
Wasting in my lonely tower, waiting by an open door
I’ll fool myself, she’ll walk right in, and as the long long nights begin, I’ll think of all that might have been
Waiting here forevermore…”
Beast
43.
“You promised to give me my bookstore back,” she said, trying not to cry.
“I did promise,” he said, his voice growing stronger and more human. “And… a king keeps his promises.”
Liz Braswell
44.
“I let her go… Because I love her.”
Beast
45.
“I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I wanted more than I can tell… For once it might be grand to have someone understand, I want so much more than they’ve got planned!”
Belle
46.
“Sometimes,’ Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, ‘everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while’. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped from her fingertips. ‘I like to see it. We all have our dark lusts. We should enjoy them.”
Sarah Pinborough
47.
“As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?”
Beast
48.
“They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her yellow dress.”
Holly Black
49.
“You take me as your prisoner, and now you want to have dinner with me? Are you insane?”
Belle
50.
“When I felt lost and lonely, not a dream in my head, your words lifted my spirit high! Remember what you said: As long as there’s Christmas, I truly believe that hope is the greatest of the gifts we’ll receive. As long as our guiding star shines above.”
Angelique
51.
“Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly – and the breath stopped in my throat.”
Belle
52.
“You’re in the middle of the woods with a beast as the curse grows stronger. I won’t be able to control it forever.”
Liz Braswell
53.
“He fell into despair, and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast?”
Narrator
54.
“We all have a choice—to be monsters or men. It is not a matter of blood, but a condition of the heart.”
Elizabeth D. Marie
55.
“Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside the castle, with a magic mirror, as his only window to the outside world.”
Narrator
56.
“If she is the one who’ll break the spell, you must finally learn to love.”
Rosalind
57.
“I am NOT a beast!”
Beast
58.
“I truly believe that hope is the greatest of the gifts we’ll receive. As long as our guiding star shines above.”
Angelique
59.
“Well, I never thanked you for not leaving me to be eaten by wolves.”
Beast
60.
“Impress her with your rapier wit. Shower her with compliments.”
Lumiere
61.
“There always will be a time when the world is filled with peace and love.”
Belle
62.
“I never felt this way about anyone. I wanna do something for her.”
Beast
63.
“I know he looks vicious, but he’s really kind and gentle.”
Belle
64.
“You don’t lose hope, love. If you do, you lose everything.”
Mrs. Potts
65.
“Lumière: You must charm her! Be gentle!
Mrs. Potts: Kind!
Cogsworth: Sweet!
Lumière: Come, come, show me the smile!
[the Beast shows his sharp teeth and tries to smile] Mrs. Potts: Ooh, dear!
Cogsworth: Oh, my!”
Beauty and the Beast
66.
“Were together now. Everything’s going to be fine…”
Belle
67.
“You have to help me. You have to stand.”
Belle
68.
“I told you nothing would change. I told you the master would not allow this. I told you Christmas was a hopeless folly. But, I was wrong.”
Angelique
69.
“Far off places, daring sword fights, a prince in disguise…”
Beauty and the Beast
70.
“Did you honestly think she’d want someone like you when she had someone like me?”
Gaston
71.
“You should learn to control your temper.”
Belle
72.
“I was innocent but certain, now I’m wiser but unsure.”
Howard Ashman
73.
“The villagers say that I’m a funny girl. But I’m not sure they mean it as a compliment.”
Belle
74.
“En garde, you… you overgrown pocket watch!”
Lumiere
75.
“Gaston, you are positively primeval.”
Belle
76.
“You don’t have time to be timid. You must be bold, daring.”
Beauty and the Beast
77.
“When I felt lost and lonely, not a dream in my head, your words lifted my spirits high.”
Angelique
78.
“Although he had everything his heart desired, the Prince was spoiled, selfish and unkind.”
Narrator
79.
“I just finished the most wonderful story.”
Belle
80.
“And now he’s dear, and so unsure. I wonder why I didn’t see it there before.”
Belle
81.
“You most certainly did not, you pompous, paraffin-headed peabrain!”
Cogsworth
82.
“It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas… thinking…”
Gaston
83.
“She glanced this way, I thought I saw… And when we touched, she didn’t shudder at my paw.
No, it can’t be; I’ll just ignore… But then, she’s never looked at me that way before…”
Beast
84.
“Do I still have to sleep in the cupboard?”
Chip
85.
“People say a lot of things in anger. It is our choice whether or not to listen.”
Mrs. Potts
86.
“Belle: What happens when the last petal falls?
Lumière: The master remains a beast forever…
Cogsworth: …and we become antiques!”
Beauty and the Beast
87.
“Thank you for what you just did. But that doesn’t change that you’re too cowardly to be honest with me…”
Belle
88.
“The prince begged her for forgiveness, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart.”
Narrator
89.
“No great hunter wastes his time on rabbits.”
Gaston
90.
“Don’t frighten the poor girl!”
Mrs. Potts
91.
“I would risk anything to kiss you again.”
Lumiere
92.
“Then one night, an unexpected intruder arrived at the castle, seeking shelter from the bitter storm. As a gift, she offered the prince a single rose. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince turned the woman away.”
Narrator
93.
“I’d like to thank you all for coming to my wedding. But first I’d better go in there and propose to the girl.”
Gaston
94.
“Did you see her stand up to him? I am telling you, this girl is the one. They must fall in love if we are to be human again, and how can they fall in love if she stays in her room?”
Lumiere
95.
“When the moment is right, confess your love.”
Lumiere
96.
“Well, of course he can talk. It’s all he ever does. Now, Lumière, as head of the household I demand that you put her back in her cell at once.”
Cogsworth
97.
“We don’t like what we don’t understand, in fact, it scares us, and this monster’s mysterious, at least…”
Beauty and the Beast
98.
“It’s the ones who play hard to get that are always the sweetest prey. That’s what makes Belle so appealing; she hasn’t made a fool of herself just to gain my favor. What would you call that?”
Gaston
99.
“How can you read this? There’s no pictures!”
Gaston
100.
“Belle, you must leave here! This castle is alive!”
Maurice
101.
“I have found that most troubles seem less troubling. After a bracing cup of tea.”
Mrs. Potts
102.
“There goes the baker with his tray like always, the same old bread and rolls to sell, every morning just the same since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town.”
Belle
103.
“Well there’s the usual things: flowers… chocolates… promises you don’t intend to keep.”
Cogsworth
104.
“I’ve been burnt by you before!”
Plumette
105.
“Walt said, ‘If I ever do go back, there are only two subjects I would want to do. One of them is Beauty and the Beast.’ For the life of me, I can’t remember what the other one was.”
Charles Solomon
Bonus
“And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.”
Emma Donoghue
I hope you enjoyed this collection of Beauty and the Beast Quotes.
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