966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies – thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.

Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species.

That she bear children is not a woman’s significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

I’d wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.