Quote by Havelock Ellis
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was fre

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. – Havelock Ellis

Other quotes by Havelock Ellis

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each others nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Men
Read Quote

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Romantic
category

Romance is everything. – Gertrude Stein

Category:
Romantic

Im a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy. – Josh Hutcherson

Category:
Romantic

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Romantic

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. – Hugh Grant

Category:
Romantic

Random Quotes

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. – Maria Shriver

Category:
Friendship

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? – Samuel Hoffenstein

Category:
Driving

For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. St. Paul In Philippians 4:11 – Bible

Category:
Contentment

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

Category:
Education