No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

- Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

- Havelock Ellis

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

- Havelock Ellis

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

- Havelock Ellis

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

- 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

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

- Havelock Ellis

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

- Havelock Ellis