D. H. Lawrence
25 quotations
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
I shall always be a priest of love.
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.