“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” — Havelock Ellis
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.” — 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
“A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.” — 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
“Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.” — Havelock Ellis
“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.” — 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
“The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.” — Havelock Ellis
“Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.” — 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
“Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.” — Havelock Ellis