Quotes by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

"Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart."
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"There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster."
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
"Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle."
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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (French: [ʒan maʁi ləpʁɛ̃s də bomɔ̃] ⓘ; 26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French author who wrote the best-known version of Beauty and the Beast, an abridged ad...