Lady Chatterley's Lover quotes

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead.

England my England! but which is my England?

The industrial England blots out the agricultural England. One meaning blots out another. The new England blots out the old England. And the continuity is not organic, but mechanical.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe.

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