Цитаты из книги Sons and Lovers

Да, но, если очень беден и несчастен, хочешь — не хочешь, к деньгам по-иному станешь относиться. Такие люди мало-помалу все свои интересы сосредотачивали на деньгах.

Себя он не боялся. А вот общества — и это он сознавал отчетливо — нужно бояться. Чутье подсказывало, что общество — чудовище злонамеренное и безрассудное.

Но не все можно опорочить. Банку сардин, например.

А вообще-то молодость — ужасная пора. Чувствуешь себя старой, как Мафусаил, но что-то внутри щекочет, лишает покоя. Что за жизнь ей выпала! И никаких надежд!

Его раздосадовало вторжение: ведь уединение он ценил превыше всего — единственное и последнее, что осталось у него от свободы.

Возвращаются времена года, но не возвращается день или сладкое прикосновение вечера, или утра.

На логику иногда нельзя возразить, так она нелогична!

It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us. Place any child among the ruling classes, and he will grow up, to his own extent, a ruler. Put king's and Dukes' among the masses, and they'll be little plebeians, mass products.

The masses were always the same, and will always be the same. Nero's slaves were extremely little different from our colliers or the Ford motor-car workmen. I mean Nero's mine slaves and his field slaves. It is the masses: they are the unchangeable. An individual may emerge from the masses. But the emergence doesn't alter the mass. The masses are unalterable. It is one of the most momentous facts of social science.

What does it matter? It's the life-long companionship that matters. It's the living together from day to day, not the sleeping together once or twice. You and I are married, no matter what happens to us. We have the habit of each other. And habit, to my thinking, is more vital than any occasional excitement.

You imagined him something he wasn't. That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

"But you'll see it'll turn out all right. You'll make the best of it," he continued rather wistfully. "There's nothing else for it." "Yea, there's making the worst of it. Try and make it all right."

If the women wasn't fools, the men wouldn't be bad uns, that's what I say. No man was ever that bad wi' me but what he got it back again. Not but what they're a lousy lot, there's no denying it.

To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort - to live effortless, a kind of conscious sleep - that is very beautiful, I think- that is our after life - our immortality.

You'll find you're always tumbling over the things you've put behind you.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued, so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

'if you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.'

You mustn't mind people so much. They're not being disagreeable to you — it's their way. You always think people are meaning things for you. But they don't.

We don't want to follow a man into the w.c., so why should we want to follow him into bed with a woman? And therein lies the problem.

Married people like you and Julia have labels on you, like travellers' trunks. Julia is labelled MRS Arnold B. Hammond - just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to somebody.