Vincent quotes from Beauty and the Beast

Vincent

Catherine, you must live according to your conscience, just as we must live according to the laws that have allowed us to survive.

Vincent

We are all agreed that what is at stake here is the greater good of both worlds. Some coarse of action, anything, is better then to allow all that we are, all that we have built be held hostage to one man's evil.

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You were a father not only to me, but to anyone who needed one. You were there for more children than I can name.

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We can't do this. If we throw the treasure into the Abyss, we admit defeat. It has beaten us...There may be no place for it in our world, but there are others in the world Above who go hungry and homeless. Although, we live apart from them, we cannot deny that we are all a part of each other and this city. We cannot turn our backs while there is a chance to help. We cannot turn our backs.

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You find the words boring because you are merely reading them. Words are nothing but cold lifeless things unless you use your mind and your heart to interpret them.

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You will have your grandson back...Can there be a greater treasure?

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The truth makes you strong.

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[Winslow's eulogy] Winslow loved all of us fiercely. We were his family. Nothing could ever change that for him. Not conflict, nor anger...not even death. Winslow will always be a part of us, in our hearts. Let us remember him for his strength and his courage...He'll continue to live through us, through our memory of him. Now is the time to mourn...and the pain will soften, I promise.

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Our world is in mourning now...Though it is painful, each of us must try to find meaning in what has come to pass. We must find hope in this time of great sorrow and sacrifice. We must never forget what has happened or why, so that the story will live always and so that one day you can tell your own children...It began a long time ago, when our world was very young. There was a man, who, with Father helped plant the very seeds of our civilization. But even his evil side began to grow, until it overshadowed all that was good. He was banished, yet we were never truly free of him. And then one night, his evil visited the world above...

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Elizabeth says they are her life. Who are we to tell her she is wrong?

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[about Mouse's plan] Your heart does you credit.

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Catherine will not fail us.

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[quoting] I met a traveller from an antique land/ Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/ Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,/ Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown/ And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command/ Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,/ The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed./ And on the pedestal these words appear:/ "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"/ Nothing beside remains: round the decay/ Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,/ The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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[voice over] What we shared will never die. I'll always be with you. Goodbye, Catherine. Be happy.

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There is a piano in a chamber beneath this city waiting for you to play. It's yours. Come back. Play it for us.