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My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.


Harry Ellis Dickson

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HAVELOCK ELLIS I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein...
TOM ELLIS Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as h...
ELLIS PETERS I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...
HAVELOCK ELLIS To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
HAVELOCK ELLIS A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
HAVELOCK ELLIS The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
HAVELOCK ELLIS We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Every artist writes his own autobiography.
HAVELOCK ELLIS The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the pop...
HAVELOCK ELLIS The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alo...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
HAVELOCK ELLIS It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and rela...
HAVELOCK ELLIS Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of a...
HAVELOCK ELLIS The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
HAVELOCK ELLIS However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere tran...
HAVELOCK ELLIS The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy,...
ALBERT ELLIS All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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