What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
— Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
'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.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
