Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 11 Page 13

aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest — and see what they are doing all the time. By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren’t stand by their own actions, much less by their own words.’

‘But,’ said Ursula sadly, ‘that doesn’t alter the fact that love is the greatest, does it? What they DO doesn’t alter the truth of what they say, does it?’