D. H. LAWRENCE QUOTES III
English author (1885-1930)
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Studies in Classic American Literature
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
D. H. LAWRENCE
letter to Rolf Gardiner, Dec. 18, 1927
If we lose our sanity ...
We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots,
the howl of the utterly lost
howling their nowhereness.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"At Last"
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Studies in Classic American Literature
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
D. H. LAWRENCE
letter to Blanche Jennings, May 8, 1909
A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.
D. H. LAWRENCE
The Ladybird
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. LAWRENCE
letter to Edward Marsh, November 18, 1913
We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Studies in Classic American Literature
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. LAWRENCE
letter to Blanche Jennings, April 15, 1908
If the robot can recognize the clean flame of life
in men who have never fallen from life
then he repents, and his will breaks, and a great love of life
brings him to his knees, in homage and pure passion of service.
Then he receives the kiss of reconciliation
and ceases to be a robot, and becomes a servant of life.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Real Democracy", The Complete Poems
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Love"
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover