D.H. Lawrence Quotes on Duty (3 Quotes)

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In.

I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager it has no versatility it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility it is worn threadbare with much use it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

You may be the most liberal Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical difference between the responsible and the irresponsible classes.