D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Husband, Wife, Unhappiness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Wisdom, Love You

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Philosophy, Blessed, Mean

• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, College, Wind

• Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Long, Wife, Done

• My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Rocks, Wife

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

• You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sister, Mother, Sex

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5231, Delphi Classics

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