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
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
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
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 could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. — T. E. Lawrence God 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
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its… — T. E. Lawrence Animal Copy Share Image
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Books 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
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
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
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
I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly, — T. E. Lawrence Hours 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
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley… — T. E. Lawrence Aggression Copy Share Image
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity… — T. E. Lawrence Dignity Copy Share Image
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Book Copy Share Image
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Army Copy Share Image
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He… — T. E. Lawrence Body Copy Share Image
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final… — T. E. Lawrence Best shot Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Alas Copy Share Image
When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born:… — T. E. Lawrence Forever Copy Share Image
