Quotes by Henry Havelock Ellis
| Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. |
| The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. |
| What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. |
| 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. |
| The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. |
| Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life |
| Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. |