Lady Chatterley's Lover Quotes
"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
"Why couldn’t a girl be queenly, and give the gift of herself?"
"The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love."
"Poor Connie! As the years drew on it was the fear of nothingness in her life that affected her."
""Why don’t men and women really like one another nowadays?""
"He was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been."
"This was the divine love! After all, the moderns were right when they felt contempt for the performance."
"A man’s a poor bit of a wastrel, blown about."
"> You live by what you thrill to, and there’s the end of it."
"It was no good being really good and getting left with it."
"If fate sent me a woman I wanted, well and good."
"Money, success, the bitch-goddess, as Tommy Dukes persisted in calling it, after Henry James, that was a permanent necessity."
"You couldn’t spend your last sou, and say finally: So that’s that!"
"The worst of it was, Clifford tended to become vague, absent, and to fall into fits of vacant depression."
"It was just dismal, and one had to put up with it."
"The air was soft and dead, as if all the world were slowly dying."
"A terrible, seething welter of ugly life it seemed: not at all the flat drabness it looked from outside."
"But her heart sank, she saw how utterly he disliked her, when she went against him."
"Ravished! How ravished one could be without ever being touched."
"She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help."
"It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass."
"The curious pulpy part of him, the emotional and humanly-individual part, depended on her with terror, like a child, almost like an idiot."
"She heard it all with deepening dismay and repulsion. It was one of the ghastly half-truths that poison human existence."
"What man in his senses would say such things to a woman! But men aren’t in their senses."
"Moreover, in half-an-hour’s time, Connie heard Clifford talking to Mrs. Bolton, in a hot, impulsive voice, revealing himself in a sort of passionless passion to the woman."
"And Mrs. Bolton was carefully dressing him in evening clothes, for there were important business guests in the house."
"The only thing was not to care, not to care about the wages. Yet, if you were poor and wretched you had to care."
"The vast plumes of smoke and vapor rose from the new works up above, and this was now Stacks Gate: no chapel, no pubs, even no shops."
"She felt the glide of his cheek on her thighs and belly and buttocks, and the close brushing of his moustache and his soft thick hair."
"He was no longer young and merely buoyant. Neither was he the insouciant sort."
"He thought of his life abroad, as a soldier. India, Egypt, then India again: the blind, thoughtless life with the horses."
"It was as if dismalness had soaked through and through everything."
"The fellowship was dead. There was only apartness and hopelessness."
"The car was already turning, between little old blackened miners’ cottages, to descend to Uthwaite."
"England, my England! But which is my England?"
"One England blots out another. The industrial England blots out the agricultural England."
"It is the overwhelming pressure of environment."
"You only bully with your money, like any Jew or any Schieber!"
"I wanted a woman who wanted me, and wanted it."
"But the actual thing itself is nothing to them, a bit distasteful."
"It’s astonishing how Lesbian women are, consciously or unconsciously."
"I wanted to keep to myself: keep my privacy and my decency."
"I'm used to horses, and cows, though they are very female, have a soothing effect on me."
"They talk a lot about nationalism, nationalization of royalties, nationalization of the whole industry."
"The young ones get mad because they’ve no money to spend. Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend."
"If the men wore scarlet trousers, as I said, they wouldn’t think so much of money: if they could dance and hop and skip, and sing and swagger and be handsome, they could do with very little cash."
"Train the people to be able to live, and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend."
"Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t."
"The little flame is all I care about in my life. I’ve got no friends, not inward friends. Only you."
"We fucked a flame into being. Even the flowers are fucked into being between the sun and the earth."
"I love being chaste now. I love it as snowdrops love the snow."
"We could be chaste together just as we can fuck together. But we have to be separate for a while, and I suppose it is really the wiser way."