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D.H. Lawrence Quotes

«The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In»
«Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.»
«All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing»
«My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Religion | Keywords: bridle, bridled, bridles
«Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions»
«I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.»
«The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: creature, curious, dozens
«I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze»
«What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.»
«An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.»