D. H. Lawrence

Books and Quotes Collection

The White Peacock

1911
He eyed me with contempt: great featherless, half winged bird as I was, incomprehensible, contemptible, but awful.

Sons and Lovers

1913
The girls all liked to hear him talk. They often gathered in a little circle while he sat on a bench, and held forth to them, laughing.

The Rainbow

1915
Her heart was so black and tangled in the teaching, her personal self was shut in prison, abolished, she was subjugate to a bad, destructive will.
So the battle went on till her heart was sick. She had several more boys to subjugate before she could establish herself.

Women in Love

1920
The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.

Sea and Sardinia

1921
Since she had another seat and was quite comfortable, we smiled and let her chunter.

Fantasia of the Unconscious

1922
Primarily and supremely man is always the pioneer of life, adventuring onward into the unknown, alone with his own temerarious, dauntless soul.
So that now the universe has escaped from the pin which was pushed through it, like an impaled fly vainly buzzing: now that the multiple universe flies its own complicated course quite free, and hasn't got any hub, we can hope also to escape.

The Plumed Serpent

1926
There was a stone basin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

1928
An' doesn't ter know? Cunt! It's thee down theer; an' what I get when I'm i'side thee, and what tha gets when I'm i'side thee; it's a' as it is, all on't.
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The White Peacock
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow
Women in Love
Sea and Sardinia
Fantasia of the Unconscious
The Plumed Serpent
Lady Chatterley's Lover