The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis de Sade

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
William Butler Yeats

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler Yeats

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
William Butler Yeats

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
Donald Trump

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
Henry Ellis

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Henry Ellis

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich Fromm