Literature Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

— D. H. Lawrence

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

— D. H. Lawrence

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

— D. H. Lawrence

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

— D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us…

— D. H. Lawrence

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

— D. H. Lawrence

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

— D. H. Lawrence

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among…

— D. H. Lawrence

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

— D. H. Lawrence

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the…

— D. H. Lawrence

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,…

— D. H. Lawrence

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked…

— D. H. Lawrence

For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.…

— D. H. Lawrence

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame…

— D. H. Lawrence

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence