I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me. — T. E. Lawrence Lying Copy Share Image
I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly, — T. E. Lawrence Hours Copy Share Image
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. — T. E. Lawrence Action Copy Share Image
If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me. — T. E. Lawrence Communication Copy Share Image
Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day. — T. E. Lawrence Every day Copy Share Image
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T. E. Lawrence Desert Copy Share Image
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Books Copy Share Image
The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them. — T. E. Lawrence Arabs Copy Share Image
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. — T. E. Lawrence Modern Copy Share Image
Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it. — T. E. Lawrence Amount Copy Share Image
They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with… — T. E. Lawrence Clothes Copy Share Image
There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness. — T. E. Lawrence Aimlessness Copy Share Image
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. — T. E. Lawrence Arabia Copy Share Image
A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be… — T. E. Lawrence Ashamed Copy Share Image
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from… — T. E. Lawrence Desert 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… — T. E. Lawrence Arab Copy Share Image
The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known… — T. E. Lawrence Communism Copy Share Image
The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for… — T. E. Lawrence Born 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… — T. E. Lawrence Men 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… — T. E. Lawrence Circumstances 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… — T. E. Lawrence Arabs Copy Share Image
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed… — T. E. Lawrence Areas Copy Share Image
You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow,… — T. E. Lawrence Artist 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… — T. E. Lawrence Age 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… — T. E. Lawrence Infidel Copy Share Image
As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous… — T. E. Lawrence Arabia 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 Bedouin 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.… — T. E. Lawrence Artistic Copy Share Image
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.… — T. E. Lawrence Arabs Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and… — T. E. Lawrence Books 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… — T. E. Lawrence Aging Copy Share Image
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results.… — T. E. Lawrence Artistic Copy Share Image
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master.… — T. E. Lawrence Aliens 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… — T. E. Lawrence Advantage Copy Share Image
The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the… — T. E. Lawrence Always 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… — T. E. Lawrence War Copy Share Image
The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen. — T. E. Lawrence Commander Copy Share Image
