"For God’s sake, let us be men not……" — D. H. Lawrence
"For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces."
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441 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence has 441 quotes on this site.
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She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and…
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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning…
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will…
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
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Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready.…
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out…
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most…
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That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
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Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
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More Amuses Quotes
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
— Henry Adams
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality
— Grace Kelly
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I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does…
— Noel Coward
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
— Plato
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion…
— Samuel Johnson
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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him.…
— Tahereh Mafi
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I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure;…
— Fernando Botero
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