“Learn all you can… Get to know their families, clans and tribes, friends and enemies, wells, hills and roads. Do all this by listening and by indirect inquiry. ... Get to speak their dialect ... not yours. Until you can… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. I was unable to take the professional view that… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour.… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“A weariness of the desert was the living always in company, each of the party hearing all that was said and seeing all that… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“We cut three telegraph wires, and fastened the free ends to the saddles of six riding-camels of the Howeitat. The astonished team struggled far… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and realized that… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“Afterwards the greedy Howeitat saw more oryx in the distance and went after the beasts, who foolishly ran a little; then stood still and… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“Learn all you can… Get to know their families, clans and tribes, friends and enemies, wells, hills and roads. Do all this by listening… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.” — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“Something hurtful to my pride, disagreeable, rose at the sight of these lower forms of life. Their existence struck a servile reflection upon our… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars To gain… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander.” — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share
