Quote by Dante Alighieri

“As at those words did I myself become; And all my love was so absorbed in Him, That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed.”

— Dante Alighieri

“To Beatrice- darling, dearest, dead.”

— Lemony Snicket

“At first he didn’t recognize her. She was breathtakingly beautiful, her movements sure and graceful. Yet there was something about her face and figure…

— Sylvain Reynard

For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

— Anonymous

“This soirée was followed by a longer and more serious session in Pommeroy's, which had ended once again, I regret to say, with Henry…

— John Mortimer

“How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul…

— William Butler Yeats

“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smiling.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“She was a light from Heaven, and a beauty for all of us to behold.”

— J. W. Lord

“How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul…

— W. B. Yeats

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from…

— Cassandra Austen