To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. — T. E. Lawrence Action 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 have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. — T. E. Lawrence Journalism Copy Share Image
I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me. — T. E. Lawrence Lies Copy Share Image
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T. E. Lawrence Desert Copy Share Image
Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. — T. E. Lawrence 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
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them. — 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
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
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
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the… — T. E. Lawrence Absolutes Copy Share Image
Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.… — T. E. Lawrence Arabia 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 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
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 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
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such… — T. E. Lawrence Desert Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on… — T. E. Lawrence 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day. — T. E. Lawrence Comedy 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
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T. E. Lawrence Book 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
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
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
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
