The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders. — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals. — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion. — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share
