All T.E. Lawrence Quotes
- Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true. Ambition
- As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel. Arabs
- Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness… Achieved
- It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. Air
- The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. Beduin
- I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area… Area
- Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. Anger
- Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies… Armies
- To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. Eating
- I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly, Hours
- The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. Act
- In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played… Absolute
- There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness. Aimlessness
- They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet… Appeared
- Half a calamity is better than a whole one. Better
- All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that… Act
- All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in… Affects
- To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. Action
- The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. Armoury
- To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. News