Bookseller Quotes in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Bookseller: Ah, Belle.

Belle: Good morning. I've come to return the book I borrowed

[hands book to bookseller]

Bookseller: Finished already?

Belle: Oh, I couldn't put it down. Have you got anything new?

Bookseller: Ha ha. Not since yesterday

[puts book away]

Belle: That's alright. I'll borrow

[grabs book]

Belle: this one.

Bookseller: That one? But you've read it twice.

Belle: Well, it's my favorite. Far off places, daring sword fights, magic spells, a prince in disguise.

Bookseller: [chuckles] If you like it all that much, it's yours.

[hands book to Belle]

Belle: But sir...

Bookseller: I insist.

Belle: Well, thank you. Thank you very much.

Robin: Could one of these lady vampires actually bite a guy? You know, like a teenage guy?

Bookseller: Well how old would he be?

Robin: Like, 18.

Bookseller: Well I seriously doubt it. You see the female vampire needs the blood of a virgin, and an 18-year-old boy would hardly be a virgin, now would he?

Robin: Well just hypothetically, what if he was a virgin?

Bookseller: Well then I think he has a lot bigger problems to worry about than female vampires.

[chuckles]

Bookseller: [after Erin Castleton has dropped the book] : Don't close it. You should never close a book until you've read something from it.

Erin Castleton: What?

Bookseller: Well, just a sentence or a word. It can be very, very revealing. Just read something, anything. Well, read from the top, then.

Bookseller: You're in the wrong place, storybooks for women are over here.

Yentl: [holding a book] I'd like this one, please.

Bookseller: [takes the book away] Sacred books are for men.

Yentl: Why?

Bookseller: It's the law.

Yentl: Where's it written?

Bookseller: It doesn't matter where it's written, it's the law.

Yentl: Well if it's the law it must be written somewhere, perhaps in here

[the book]

Yentl: . I'll take it.