Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
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Famous D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“God doesn't know things. He is things.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.”
Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence
“I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.”
Source: Women in Love
“Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.”
“Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.”
Source: St Mawr and Other Stories
“Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.”
Source: Women in Love
“One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.”
Source: The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird
“Only in a novel are all things given full play.”
Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.”
Source: Kangaroo
“The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.”
Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays