Author: Havelock Ellis

Quotes

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

- Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

- Havelock Ellis

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

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

- Havelock Ellis

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

- Havelock Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

- Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

- Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

- Havelock Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

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.

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.

- Havelock Ellis

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