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
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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
The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Havelock Ellis
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Havelock Ellis
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
Havelock Ellis
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.