Lumiere Quotes in Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Lumiere Quotes:
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Beast: I want to do something for her. But what?
Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things. Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep.
Lumiere: No, no! It's got to be more something more special than that!
-- Lumiere -
Beast: Oh, it's no use. She's so beautiful, and I'm. Well, look at me!
Mrs. Potts: Oh, must help her to see past all that.
Beast: I don't know how.
Mrs. Potts: Well, you can start by making yourself more presentable. Straighten up. Try to act like a gentleman.
[Beast stands up straighter]
Lumiere: Ah, yes. When she comes in give her a dashing, debonair smile. Come, come, show me the smile.
[Beast gives a big, forced smile]
Mrs. Potts: But don't frighten the poor girl!
-- Lumiere -
Beast: [pounds on Belle's door yelling] I thought I told you to come down to dinner!
Belle: I'm not hungry!
Beast: [yelling to Belle] You'll come out, or I'll-I'll-I'll break down the door!
Lumiere: Master, I could be wrong, but that might not be the best way to win the girl's affections.
Cogsworth: Please. Attempt to be a gentlemen.
Beast: But, she's being so difficult!
Mrs. Potts: Gently. Gently.
Beast: [calmly] Will you come down to dinner?
Belle: No!
Beast: [points at door] Hmm?
Cogsworth: Ah-ah-ah, suave, genteel.
Beast: [suavely] It would give me great pleasure
[tries to hold in his anger]
Beast: if you would join me for dinner.
Cogsworth: [clears throat and mutters] We say please.
Beast: Please?
Belle: No thank you!
Beast: [yells] You can't stay in there forever!
Belle: Yes, I can!
Beast: [yells] Fine! Then go ahead and *starve!* If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat at all!
[storms down through the hallway and slams the door behind him]
Mrs. Potts: Oh dear. That didn't go very well at all, did it?
-- Lumiere -
Lumiere: Ma chère mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now, we invite to relax, let us pull up a chair, as the dining room proudly presents your dinner.
-- Lumiere -
Lumiere: [trying to prepare the Beast for his dinner with Belle] Voilà ! Oh, you look so, so...
Beast: [fur done up in curls and bows] Stupid.
Lumiere: Not quite the word I was looking for. Perhaps a little more off the top.
Cogsworth: [clears throat] Your lady awaits.
-- Lumiere -
Lumiere: Be our guest, be our guest, put our service to the test / Tie your napkin round your waist, cheri, and let us provide the rest / Soup du jour? Hors d'oeuvres? Why, we only live to serve / Try the gray stuff, it's delicious! Don't believe me? Ask the dishes! / They can sing, they can dance, after all, Miss, this is France / And a dinner here is never second best / Come on, unfold our menu, / Take a glance and then you / will be our guest / Oui, our guest, Be our guest!
Lumiere: [Chorus joins in] Beef ragoune, cheese soufflé, pie and pudding en flambé / We'll prepare and serve with flair, a culinary cabaret / You're alone and you're scared, but the banquet's all prepared / No one's gloomy or complaining, while the flatware's entertaining / We tell jokes, I do tricks, with my fellow candlesticks / And it's all in perfect taste, that you can bet! / Come on and fill your glass / You've won your own free pass / To be our guest / If you're stressed, it's fine dining we suggest! Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest!
Lumiere: Life is so unnerving, for a servant who's not serving / He's not whole, without a soul, to wait upon! Ah, those good old days when we were useful... suddenly those good old days are gone / Ten years we've been rusting, needing so much more than dusting / Needing exercise, a chance to use our skill! / Most days, we just lay around the castle / Flabby fat and lazy, then you walked in and oops-a-daisy!
Mrs. Potts: It's a guest! It's a guest! Sakes alive and I'll be blessed! / Wine's been poured, and thank the Lord I've had the napkins freshly pressed / With dessert, she'll want tea, and my dear, that's fine with me / While the cups do their soft-shoeing I'll be bubbling, I'll be brewing / I'll get warm, piping hot... Heaven's sakes, is that a spot? / Clean it up! We want the company impressed! / We've got a lot to do! / Is it one lump or two? / For our guest! She's our guest!
Chorus: Be our guest! Be our guest! Our command is your request! / It's been ten years since we had anybody here, and we're obsessed! / With your meal, with your ease, yes indeed, we aim to please / While the candlelight's still glowing, let us help you, we'll keep going...
Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, Chorus: Course by course! One by one! / Till you shout "Enough! I'm done!" / And we send you off to sleep as you digest! / Tonight, you'll prop your feet up / But for now let's eat up / Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest! Please be our guest!
-- Lumiere -
Cogsworth: Couldn't keep quiet, could we? Just had to invite him to stay, didn't we?
[imitates Lumiere]
Cogsworth: 'Serve him tea. Sit in the master's chair. Pet the pooch!'
Lumiere: I was trying to be hospitable.
-- Lumiere -
[giving Beast advice on how to impress Belle]
Lumiere: Impress her with your rapier wit.
Mrs. Potts: But be gentle.
Lumiere: Shower her with compliments.
Mrs. Potts: But be sincere.
Lumiere: And above all.
Lumiere, Mrs. Potts: You must control your temper!
-- Lumiere -
Lumiere: Master.
Beast: [growling softly] What?
Lumiere: Since the girl is going to be with us for quite some time, I was just thinking - you might want to offer her a more comfortable room.
Beast: [growls, then walks past]
Lumiere: Then again, maybe not!
-- Lumiere -
Cogsworth: [shakes Lumiere's hand in truce] Well, Lumiere, old friend. Shall we let bygones be bygones?
Lumiere: Of course, mon ami. I told you she would break the spell!
Cogsworth: I beg your pardon, old friend, but I believe I told you.
Lumiere: No, you didn't. I told you!
Cogsworth: You most certainly did not, you pompous, paraffin-headed peabrain!
Lumiere: En garde, you you overgrown pocket watch!
-- Lumiere -
Mrs. Potts: Pardon me, Master.
Beast: Leave me in peace.
Mrs. Potts: But sir, the castle is under attack!
Villagers: [singing outside and trying to knock the door down] Kill the Beast! Kill the Beast!
Lumiere: [All the objects are trying to hold the door closed] This isn't working.
Featherduster: Oh Lumiere. We must do something.
Lumiere: Wait, I know!
Villagers: [Still singing outside] Kill the Beast! Kill the Beast!
Mrs. Potts: What should we do, Master?
Beast: It doesn't matter now. Just let them come.
-- Lumiere -
Lumiere: Did you see that? It's a girl.
Cogsworth: I know it's a girl.
Lumiere: Don't you see? She's the one. The girl we have been waiting for. She has come to break the spell.
Cogsworth: Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
-- Lumiere -
[Belle enters the castle]
Lumière: Cogsworth, look! A beautiful girl!
Cogsworth: Yes, I can see it's a girl; I've lost my hands, not my eyes.
Lumière: What if she is *the one*? The one who will break the spell?
Belle: Hello? Who said that?
-- Lumiere -
Cogsworth: When the Master finds out you have disobeyed his orders, he will blame *me*!
Lumière: Yes, I will make sure of it, But don't you see, this is the girl we have been waiting for! This is the one who will break the spell!
Cogsworth: You know she will never love him.
Lumière: A broken clock is right two times a day, mon ami. But this is not one of those times.
-- Lumiere -
Lumière: [to Belle, releasing her from her cell] Forgive my intrusion, mademoiselle. But I have come to escort you to your room.
Belle: [picks up a stool to use as a weapon, suspiciously] My room? But I thought...
Lumière: Oh, what?
[imitates the Beast]
Lumière: 'That once this door closes, it will never open again!'
[groans]
Lumière: I know! He gets so dramatic.
[Belle finally exits her cell and sees Lumiere for the first time]
Lumière: Hello!
[a frightened Belle gasps and Lumiere falls. Belle hits him with her stool and shrieks]
Lumière: [recovers and relights his flames] Oh, you are very strong! This is a great quality!
Belle: [still frightened] What are you?
Lumière: I am Lumiere!
Belle: [confused] And... you can talk?
Cogsworth: [appears] Well, of course he can *talk*! It's all he ever does!
[huffs]
Cogsworth: Now Lumiere, as head of the household, I demand that you put her back in her cell at once!
Lumière: [whispers] What do you want to be for the rest of your life, Cogsworth? A man or a mantel clock?
Lumière: [to Belle] Ready, miss?
Lumière: [to Cogsworth] Trust me.
-- Lumiere -
Lumière: Sacre bleu! Invaders!
-- Lumiere -
Belle: [to Lumiere] What happens when the last petal falls?
Lumière: The master remains a beast forever and we become...
Mrs. Potts: [sadly] Antiques!
Lumière: Knick-knacks.
Plumette: Lightly-used housewares.
Cogsworth: Rubbish. We become rubbish.
Belle: I want to help you. There must be some way to break the curse.
Cogsworth: Well, there is one.
[Lumiere hits him]
Mrs. Potts: It's not for you to worry about, lamb. We've made our bed, and we must lie in it.
-- Lumiere -
[the castle staff turn into regular objects]
Lumière: [holds her in his arms] Plumette? Plumette! Oh, my darling, Plumette. Oh, no.
Madame Garderobe: Maestro, you were so brave. Goodbye, mi amor.
Maestro Cadenza: Amore. No! Don't leave me.
[Froufrou falls down]
Mrs. Potts: Chip! Chip! Have you seen Chip? He ran off. Where is my little boy?
Cogsworth: Lumiere, I... I can't... speak...!
Lumière: [sadly] It's alright, Cogsworth.
Cogsworth: I can't... Lumiere... my friend... it was an honor to serve... with you.
Lumière: The honor... was mine.
-- Lumiere -
[after he transform a clock back into a human]
Cogsworth: [sees Lumiere transforming back into a human] Lumiere!
Lumière: Cogsworth, We've beat that clock!
-- Lumiere -
Lumière: [tries food] I have no taste buds, but I can tell this is exquisite!
-- Lumiere -
Beast: [to Belle, gruffly] You'll join me for dinner. That's not a request.
Mrs. Potts: Gently, Master. The girl lost her father *and* her freedom in one day.
Lumière: Yes, the poor thing is probably in there scared to death.
Belle: [Unbeknownst to them, Belle has turned her pink gown into a rope so she can escape. The Beast knocks on her bedroom door again, softly this time; nervously] Just a minute.
Lumière: You see? There she is. Now remember: Be gentle.
Mrs. Potts: Kind.
Plumette: Mmm, charming.
Cogsworth: Sweet!
Lumière: And when she opens the door, give her a dashing smile! Come, come, show me the smile!
Cogsworth: [the Beast gives a wide smile, showing his monstrous teeth. The servants react in fright] Oh, dear!
Plumette: Oh, no!
Beast: [his smile vanishes; graciously] Will you join me for dinner?
[He turns away and shakes his head at the servants as if to say, "This'll never work"]
Belle: You've taken me as your prisoner, and now you want to have dinner with me? Are you insane?
Plumette: [the Beast becomes visibly enraged; the servants back away in fear] Uh-oh! He's losing it!
Cogsworth: Oh, dear!
Beast: [pounds on Belle's door, yelling] I told you to join me for dinner!
Belle: And I told you! No!
Madame Garderobe: [awakens startled] Oh, what time is it? What's happening?
Belle: I'd *starve* before I ever ate with you!
Beast: [roaring] Well, be my guest! Go ahead and starve!
[to Lumiere]
Beast: If she doesn't eat with me, then she doesn't eat *at all*!
[storms off]
Beast: Idiots!
-- Lumiere -
Lumière: Oh, my prince!
Prince: Hello, old friend.
[hugging Lumiere]
Lumière: It's so good to see you!
Plumette: You saved our lives, mademoiselle.
Chip: Belle, It's me! It's Chip!
[he hugs Belle]
-- Lumiere -
[the Beast enters the dining room and sees a dinner plate on his side. He sits down and sees another plate set up across from him. He pushes away the plate in a fit of rage]
Beast: [roars] *Lumiere*!
[Lumière and Cogsworth get startled]
Lumière: [turns to Cogsworth] Be calm. Let me do the talking.
[the Beast bursts through the door]
Beast: You're making her dinner?
Lumière: We thought you might appreciate the company.
Cogsworth: Master, I just want to assure you that I had no part of this hopeless plan. Preparing her dinner, designing a gown for her, giving her a suite in the East Wing...
Beast: You gave her a bedroom?
Cogsworth: No, no, no! He gave her the bedroom.
Lumière: Well, this is true. But, if this girl is the one who can break the spell, then maybe you can start by using dinner to charm her.
[turns to Cogsworth, bonks]
Lumière: Good thinking, Cogsworth.
Cogsworth: What?
Beast: That's the most ridiculous idea, I've ever heard. Charm the prisoner.
Lumière: But you must try, master. With every passing day, we become less human.
Beast: She's the daughter of a common thief. What kind of person do you think that makes her?
Mrs. Potts: Oh, you can't judge people by who their father is, now can you?
[the Beast sighs]
-- Lumiere -
Plumette: Enchantée, mademoiselle.
[She begins to dust the East Wing room]
Plumette: Don't worry. I'll have this place spotless in no time.
[She flies over to Lumiere]
Plumette: [to Lumiere] This plan of yours is dangerous.
Lumière: I would risk anything to kiss you again, Plumette.
Plumette: No, my love. I've been burned by you before. We must be strong.
Lumière: How can I be strong when you make me so weak?
-- Lumiere -
Lumière, Plumette: [singing to each other] Will you now forever remain out of reach of my arms?
-- Lumiere -
Lumiere: Maestro, your wife is upstairs, finding it harder and harder to stay awake! She's counting on you to help us break this curse!
Maestro Cadenza: Then I shall play through the dental pain!
Cogsworth: Maestro, play quietly, please.
Maestro Cadenza: Oh, quiet, sotta voce.
[laughs]
Maestro Cadenza: Of course. Are there any other tasteless demands you would like to make on my artistry?
Cogsworth: No, that's it.
-- Lumiere -
Cogsworth: Well, Master, I have had my doubts, but everything is moving like clockwork. True love really does win the day!
Beast: I let her go.
Cogsworth: [shocked] You what?
Lumière: Master, how could you do that?
Beast: I had to.
Cogsworth: But why?
Mrs. Potts: Because he loves her.
Lumière: Then why are we not human?
Cogsworth: Because she doesn't love her. And now, it's too late.
Plumette: [hopefully] But she might come back.
Beast: No. I set her free. I'm sorry I couldn't do the same for all of you. Now, go. Our time is almost past.
-- Lumiere
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