D. H. LAWRENCE QUOTES V

English author (1885-1930)

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers


A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tags: men


If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Grapes"

Tags: wine


Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tags: Paris


God is only a great imaginative experience.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence

Tags: God


Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the VARIETY of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love MUST be multiform, else it is just tyranny, just death.

D. H. LAWRENCE

The Ladybird

Tags: love


From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Love"

Tags: desire


Censors are dead men
set up to judge between life and death.
For no live, sunny man would be a censor,
he'd just laugh.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Censors"

Tags: censorship


It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers


The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

Tags: past


Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and asceticism, pietism and pornography.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Introductions and Reviews


Love was the flower of life, and blossomed unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it was found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. LAWRENCE

The Rainbow