What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Quote by Havelock Ellis
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
- Every artist writes his own autobiography.
- 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.
- It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
- 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.
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- '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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Best Quotes
- The good is the beautiful.
- I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
- Poetry is a freedom of choice and economy of voice.
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
- I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
- The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
- I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- If indeed there's life after death, I sure will still be a poet.
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.