966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.