David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nothing, Everything, Democracy

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Why, Far

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

Good, Spiritual, Dangerous

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
David Herbert Lawrence

Mind, Judge, Perfect

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

True, Artist, Morality

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
David Herbert Lawrence

Home, War, Business

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Big, Ocean

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
David Herbert Lawrence

Hate, Free, Authority

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 11, 1885

Died: March 2, 1930

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