I used to think a good book was the best company, but now Ive thought better. — DH Lawrence Books Copy Share Image
It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy. — DH Lawrence Cold hearted Copy Share Image
Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. — DH Lawrence Bread Copy Share Image
“Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.” — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world. — DH Lawrence People Copy Share Image
“You, if you were sensible, When I tell you the stars flash signals, each one dreadful, You would not turn and answer… — DH Lawrence Astronomy Copy Share Image
It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment — DH Lawrence Fulfilment Copy Share Image
Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make… — DH Lawrence Change Copy Share Image
Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings to soar and escape, if only for… — DH Lawrence Book Copy Share Image
I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let… — DH Lawrence Belief Copy Share Image
“Till she seemed to swoon, gradually her mind went, and she passed away, everything in her was melted down and fluid, and… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you… — DH Lawrence Art Copy Share Image
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when… — DH Lawrence Freedom Copy Share Image
And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon my… — DH Lawrence Dark eyes Copy Share Image
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as… — DH Lawrence Art Copy Share Image
The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is… — DH Lawrence Beauty Copy Share Image
“The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open… — dh lawrence Clitoris Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am pure male,… — DH Lawrence Beloved Copy Share Image
“The young man, perched insecurely in the slender branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he… — DH Lawrence Cold Copy Share Image
“In the inner dark she saw a handsome bay horse with his clean ears pricked like daggers from his naked head as… — DH Lawrence Another world Copy Share Image
One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and… — DH Lawrence Books Copy Share Image
All people dream, but no equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning… — DH Lawrence Ambition Copy Share Image
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep… — DH Lawrence Boredom Copy Share Image
