“ I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. Havelock Ellis
“ For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. Havelock Ellis
“ 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. Havelock Ellis
“ The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. Havelock Ellis
“ There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Havelock Ellis
“ If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. Havelock Ellis
“ The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. Havelock Ellis
“ However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks. Havelock Ellis
“ We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. Havelock Ellis
“ It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. Havelock Ellis
“ Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. Havelock Ellis
“ Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself. Havelock Ellis
“ The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consider… Havelock Ellis
“ The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis
“ It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. Havelock Ellis
“ Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. Havelock Ellis
