Quotes and Sayings about the 1920s

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman's best bet when it's hot and sticky.

Roger Stone

Gentleman

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In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest - my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.

Richard Rodriguez - Brown: The Last Discovery of America, 2003

Sacramento 50s

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

Jessica Savitch

50s

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

Pat Buchanan

50s

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Kary Mullis

South Carolina 50s

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

Christian Lacroix

50s

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Women

It's amazing, isn't it? How someone can get so into your blood.

Lady Chatterley in Lady Chatterley's Lover - Film

There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Singles & Dating

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Sex Cocktails

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Feminism Dump-Quotes

I'm not really a part of this world. But life is what we make of it.

Constance Chatterley in Lady Chatterley's Lover - Film

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D. H. Lawrence

Beauty Flowers

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Solitude & Loneliness

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Mind & Apprehension Seeing

Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy p-nis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Money

Cold weather probably played a bigger role in bringing back the hat, but sadly, the hat common to New Jersey guidos, South Carolina rednecks, Idaho potato farmers and Los Angeles gang bangers is the ubiquitous 'tractor hat,' which is derived from the cheap baseball style cap with the adjustable plastic tab.

Roger Stone

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

Roger Stone

Cocktails

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff - a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.

Roger Stone

A gentleman will walk, but never run.

Sting - Englishman in New York

Gentleman

You can't snort a line of coke off a woman's ass and not wonder about her hopes and dreams, it's not gentlemanly.

Hank Moody in Californication - Season 1 Episode 8

Cocaine Gentleman

Let's end this as gentlemen. After all, manners maketh man.

Shepherd in Kingsman - The King's Man

Gentleman

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