Beauty and the beast Quote by Anne Rice

“Power is a beautiful thing.”

— A.H. Septimius

“Power knows power.”

— Gloria Naylor

“So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.”

— Edith Wharton

“She stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“I always thought of her as the sweet, naïve one. But perhaps she wore her sweetness and naïvety as a shield. Perhaps she always…

— Marie Lu

“She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.”

— Brooke Hauser

“He’d never thought of beauty as a form of power, but that’s the way Piper had seemed—powerful.”

— Rick Riordan

“There was beauty in chaos, she'd just never known it before.”

— Amanda Linsmeier

“What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common…

— Knut Hamsun

“Beauty might be a gift to our souls from the heavens. Luxury, purchased. But suddenly she understood. There was strength in elegance.”

— Lynn Sheene

“Maybe she had some sort of extraordinary quality, secret even to her. Maybe she did have the power to alter the things she'd always…

— Anna North