D.H. Lawrence

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack

John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me nor a theatre nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what yo

Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated It is sickening Why must all experience be systematized A museum is not a first-hand contact it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

Men The only animal in the world to fear.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

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

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

I shall always be a priest of love.