Quotes from book

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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

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

“There's lots of good fish in the sea… maybe… but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”

“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”

“How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.”

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”

“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated toinstead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily…”

“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”

“You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.”

“For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.”

“you roll me out flat”

“Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve
got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up
the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money
gives out.”

“You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!”

“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”

“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”