Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day. — T. E. Lawrence Comedy Copy Share Image
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T. E. Lawrence Desert Copy Share Image
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Book 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
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. — T. E. Lawrence Journalism Copy Share Image
The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. — T. E. Lawrence Achieving dreams 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
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
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
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. — T. E. Lawrence Arabia 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
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
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
If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear… — T. E. Lawrence 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 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
“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
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
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 Angry 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
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
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
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
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
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 Arabia 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
“I loved you, so I drew these tides of Men into my hands And wrote my will across the Sky and stars… — T. E. Lawrence Little things Copy Share Image
To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. — T. E. Lawrence Eating 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
I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me. — T. E. Lawrence Lies 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 printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T. E. Lawrence Books Copy Share Image
