D.H. Lawrence Quotes


76 quotes:

"I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Speech Quotes
"The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Self Quotes
"And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Romance Quotes
"I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Relationships Quotes
"Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Reality Quotes
"Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Peace Quotes
"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Morality Quotes
"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Men And Women Quotes
"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Men And Women Quotes
"Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Literature Quotes
"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Literature Quotes
"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Humankind Quotes
"The ordinary novel would trace the history of the diamond - but I say, `Diamond, what! This is carbon.' And my diamond may be coal or soot and my theme is carbon."
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: History Quotes
"John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart"
Author: Lawrence Quotes Category: Heart Quotes

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