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

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
John Maynard Keynes

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
Marlene Dietrich

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

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

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
Casey Stengel

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning