It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price? — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another:… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image