Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

About D. H. Lawrence:

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

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Author Bio

  • NameD. H. Lawrence
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
  • AliasesDavid Herbert Lawrence; Lawrence H. Davison; D.H. Lawrence
  • BornMay 11, 1885
  • DiedMarch 2, 1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Translator; Writer; Poet; Novelist; Painter
  • WorksSons And Lovers; The Rainbow; Women In Love; Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • AwardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize