Havelock Ellis Quotes

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

What we call `Progress` is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman`s strength just as strength is a man`s charm.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.