Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939)


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

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- Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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- 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.

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- The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis - Impressions and Comments (1914)
- The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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- Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Havelock Ellis - The Dance of Life
- The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Havelock Ellis -
- Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

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- The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis -
- The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.

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