“Any future which is not beautiful is unacceptable.”

p. 5809 http://www.lordmeher.org/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&amp;nextPage=5809 <br class="br">Lord Meher (1986)

1963, Speech at Amherst College

"On Optimism and Pessimism, on the Twentieth Century, and on Many Other Things" (1901), as quoted in The Prophet Armed : Trotsky, 1879-1921 (2003) by Isaac Deutscher , p. 45

Source: Rebel Angels

Letter (5 September 1919), in The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest 1914–1919

Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PA2#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above. <br class="br">Disputed

Il n'y a de vraiment beau que ce qui ne peut servir à rien; tout ce qui est utile est laid.
Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835; Paris: Charpentier, 1866), Préface, p. 21; Burton Rascoe (trans.) Mademoiselle de Maupin, and One of Cleopatra's Nights (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1925) p. xxv.

The High Frontier (1976)