"What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship?……" — D. H. Lawrence

"What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!"

— D. H. Lawrence

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441 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence has 441 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and…
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning…
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will…
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready.…
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out…
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most…
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it… — William Blake
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter… — Mark Burnett
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I… — Mariah Carey
A closed mouth catches no flies. — Miguel de Cervantes
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. — Yasser Arafat
Time flies when you are anxious! — Maria Bamford
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine… — Juvenal
The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll… — Graig Nettles
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. — Hannah More
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it… — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and… — Tommy Lasorda

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