--- title: "5 Arabs Quotes By T. E. Lawrence" description: "5 Arabs quotes by T. E. Lawrence. Plus more from T. E. Lawrence and more Arabs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/t-e-lawrence-10943_arabs_a-first-difficulty-of-the-arab-movement_530059.jpg" --- > [A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/a-first-difficulty-of-the-arab-movement-was-to-say-who-the-arabs-were/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/t-e-lawrence-10943_arabs_a-first-difficulty-of-the-arab-movement_530059.jpg) > [The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/the-beginning-and-ending-of-the-secret-of-handling-arabs-is/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c66/t-e-lawrence-10943_arabs_the-beginning-and-ending-of-the-secret-o_891949.png) > [Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/do-not-try-to-do-too-much-with-your-own-hands-better-the-arabs-do-it-3/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/t-e-lawrence-10943_arabs_do-not-try-to-do-too-much-with-your-own_918395.jpg) > [As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/as-long-as-the-arabs-fight-tribe-against-tribe-so-long-will-they-be-a/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c4/t-e-lawrence-10943_arabia_as-long-as-the-arabs-fight-tribe-against_1072407.png) > [Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/do-not-try-and-do-too-much-with-your-own-hands-better-the-arabs-do-it/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/t-e-lawrence-10943_arabia_do-not-try-and-do-too-much-with-your-own_2688842.jpg) ## Other authors on Arabs ## More by T. E. Lawrence > [It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/it-is-difficult-to-keep-quiet-when-everything-is-being-done-wrong-but/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/some-of-the-evil-of-my-tale-may-have-been-inherent-in-our/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/your-success-will-be-proportioned-to-the-amount-of-mental-effort-you/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/club-secretary-i-say-lawrence-you-are-a-clown-lawrence-we-can-t-all/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/he-feared-his-maturity-as-it-grew-upon-him-with-its-ripe-thought-its/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [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. In that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/i-ve-been-and-am-absurdly-over-estimated-there-are-no-supermen-and-i/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/do-not-try-to-do-too-much-with-your-own-hands-better-the-arabs-do-it-2/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/arab-civilizations-had-been-of-an-abstract-nature-moral-and/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/we-lived-many-lives-in-those-whirling-campaigns-never-sparing/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/bedouin-ways-were-hard-even-for-those-brought-up-to-them-and-for/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [“In my case, the effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/in-my-case-the-effort-for-these-years-to-live-in-the-dress-of-arabs/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/a-first-difficulty-of-the-arab-movement-was-to-say-who-the-arabs-were/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/a-thick-headcloth-forms-a-good-protection-against-the-sun-and-if-you/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/if-i-could-talk-it-like-dahoum-you-would-never-be-tired-of-listening/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) > [There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-lawrence/there-is-an-ideal-standard-somewhere-and-only-that-matters-and-i/) [T. E. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-lawrence/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arabs/t-e-lawrence/#itemlist", "name": "5 Arabs Quotes By T. E. Lawrence", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. 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