A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep:… — T. E. Lawrence 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 advantage. Also… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. — 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 poetry of… — T. E. Lawrence 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. In that… — T. E. Lawrence 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 perfectly. It… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In my case, the effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of… — T. E. Lawrence 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 changing in… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
