Author: Havelock Ellis

Quotes

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

- 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

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

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

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

- 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

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

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

- Havelock Ellis

'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.

'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.

- Havelock Ellis

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