Havelock Ellis Quotes

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.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.