Best Quotes by Havelock Ellis (Top 10)

  1. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
  2. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
  3. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
  4. Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
  5. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
  6. All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
  7. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
  8. However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
  9. The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
  10. 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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