D. H. Lawrence

“For even satire is a form of sympathy.”

— D. H. Lawrence

I shall always be a priest of love.

— D. H. Lawrence

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

— D. H. Lawrence

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

— D. H. Lawrence

The great home of the soul is the open road.

— D. H. Lawrence

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

— D. H. Lawrence

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

— D. H. Lawrence

Love's a dog in a manger.

— D. H. Lawrence

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

— D. H. Lawrence

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

— D. H. Lawrence

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

— D. H. Lawrence

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

— D. H. Lawrence

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

— D. H. Lawrence

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

— D. H. Lawrence

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone…

— D. H. Lawrence

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in…

— D. H. Lawrence

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone.…

— D. H. Lawrence

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

— D. H. Lawrence

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

— D. H. Lawrence

“The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man. ”

— D. H. Lawrence

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am…

— D. H. Lawrence

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is…

— D. H. Lawrence

We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as…

— D. H. Lawrence

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of…

— D. H. Lawrence

“And who should have the money, indeed, if not your wives? They have everything to do with the money. What idea have…

— D. H. Lawrence

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into…

— D. H. Lawrence

The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So…

— D. H. Lawrence

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned.…

— D. H. Lawrence

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must…

— D. H. Lawrence

My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible…

— D. H. Lawrence

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing…

— D. H. Lawrence

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and…

— D. H. Lawrence

It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom…

— D. H. Lawrence

The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of…

— D. H. Lawrence

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you…

— D. H. Lawrence

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater…

— D. H. Lawrence

It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in…

— D. H. Lawrence