Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. — T. E. Lawrence Bedouin Copy Share Image
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. — T. E. Lawrence God Copy Share Image
A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such… — T. E. Lawrence Desert Copy Share Image
I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results.… — T. E. Lawrence Artistic Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the… — T. E. Lawrence Absolutes Copy Share Image
Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.… — T. E. Lawrence Arabia Copy Share Image
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the… — T. E. Lawrence Aging Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and… — T. E. Lawrence Books Copy Share Image
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results.… — T. E. Lawrence Artistic Copy Share Image
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master.… — T. E. Lawrence Aliens Copy Share Image
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its… — T. E. Lawrence Animal Copy Share Image
When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born:… — T. E. Lawrence Angry Copy Share Image
It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your… — T. E. Lawrence Advantage Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley… — T. E. Lawrence Aggression Copy Share Image
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it… — T. E. Lawrence War Copy Share Image
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He… — T. E. Lawrence Body Copy Share Image
The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
