Author: Havelock Ellis

Quotes

'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

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

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

- 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

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 absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

- 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

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

- Havelock Ellis

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

- Havelock Ellis

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