136 Quotes by Havelock Ellis

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

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

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

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

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.