Havelock Ellis

“the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”

“Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”

“Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.”

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

“All 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. ”

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”

“The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ”

“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

“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.”

“Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? ”

“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.”