T.E. Lawrence Quotes

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• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had…
• Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked…
• Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us,…
• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as…
• Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the…
• If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.
• He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed...
• He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood…
• Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.
• I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars
• I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of…
• Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.
• Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
• I wrote my will across the sky, in stars
• We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
• We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes…
• You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I…
• There could be no honor in sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

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