Top 108 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.