Quotes About Lady Chatterley's Lover

#1. I was deeply misled by Lady Chatterley's Lover, which seemed to insist that running naked through damp undergrowth with wild flowers entwined in your pubic hair was just about the closest thing to heaven.

Julian Barnes

#2. I read the GAO report, and it reminds me of a review I read of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the magazine Field and Stream. The reviewer of that book knew as much about the real purpose of Lady Chatterley's Lover as the GAO knows about the design and development of submarines.

Sherry Sontag

#3. I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.

Richard Flanagan

#4. Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

Jack Paar

#5. It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood! she said.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

Tig Notaro

#8. Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.

David Blankenhorn

#9. You did not carry yourself
away from pain
to become pain itself.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo

#10. Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Danny Fox

#12. Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn?t know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

Winston Churchill

#13. We may need to ready ourselves to repel boarders." "With what? One stiletto and hurtful insinuations about their mothers?

Scott Lynch

#14. Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned.

Germaine Greer

#15. Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Francois Fenelon

#16. Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?

Mark Hanna

#17. The key to being confident is taking care of yourself and feeling like you're the best you can be.

Dania Ramirez

#18. The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. The absence of fear is love.

Chris Murphy

#20. Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically .

D.H. Lawrence

#21. I'm ready. No matter what's ahead for us. I'm ready to go down any road with you. Go through any door. I know that now, more than I ever did.

Jim Clancy