Quotation to D. H. Lawrence

"Be a good animal, true to your instincts." -- The White Peacock
"Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms." -- Sons and Lovers (edited out of the 1913 edition, restored in 1992)
"I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun." -- Letter to Harriet Monroe, 1 October 1914
"Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up." -- Women in Love
"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." -- Studies in Classic American Literature (also rendered as "Never trust the teller; trust the tale.")
"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." -- Lady Chatterley's Lover
"Her father was not a coherent human being, he was a roomful of old echoes." -- Women in Love
"They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all." -- "Whales Weep Not"
"If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down" -- "The Rainbow"
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." -- "Self-Pity"