966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.

That’s just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what’s good for a man, and she’s going to see he gets it; and no matter if he’s starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she’s got him, and is giving him what’s good for him.

Men and women aren’t really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one’s wildest imagination.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it’s touch we’re afraid of.

If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

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.