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
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
Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share
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
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
“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
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
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
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share
“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
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
A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share
If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share
There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share
