T. E. Lawrence Quotes

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of fe...

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cen...

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to def...

We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, an...

I spent hours apart by myself, taking stock of where I stood, mentally, on this my thirtieth birthda...

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything...

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and t...

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

The Howeitat spread out along the cliffs to return the peasants' fire. This manner of going displeas...

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfe...

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like bein...

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate car...

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, b...

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing com...

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake ...

There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of ...

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake u...