He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life. — 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 my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes: they destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share
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
