“He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.”
“If he’s the stripper, then who are you?”“I’m Cash Davenport. I own the club.”
“Club Secretary: "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"T.E. Lawrence: "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.”
“And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if bundling it with twine. Presumably if he talked in circles around the main thing for long enough it would lie there, vanquished, panting on its side, like a roped steer.”
“No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.”
“In summing up Lawrence's earlier novels and in anticipating the later, Sons and Lovers is of central importance to the whole Lawrence canon because it contains the psychological basis of much of the later doctrine.”