"He who gets nearer the sun is leader,……" — D. H. Lawrence
"He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being."
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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 Aristocrat Quotes
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
— Sade Adu
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to…
— Michael York
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with…
— Andrew Johnson
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom
— Georg Buchner
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar…
— Lytton Strachey
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Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went…
— Michael Foley
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My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David,…
— Celia Imrie
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