Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton: “There is the great lesson of "Beauty and the Beast"; that a thing must be loved BEFORE it is loveable.”
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: “But Tom thought he would sooner have a jolly good fairy tale, about Jack the Giant-killer or Beauty and the Beast, which taught him something that he didn’t know already.”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'She's closed off from us, like Beauty and the Beast, like Gwendolen and Grandcourt, and one of these days she'll turn up with bag and baggage.'”
Shame by Salman Rushdie: “the classic fable Beauty and the Beast is simply the story of an arranged marriage”