Beginnings and endings Quote by T. E. Lawrence

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also…

— T. E. Lawrence

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the…

— T. E. Lawrence

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

— T. E. Lawrence

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

— T. E. Lawrence

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of…

— T. E. Lawrence

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. In that…

— T. E. Lawrence

“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It…

— T. E. Lawrence

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private…

— T. E. Lawrence

We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came…

— T. E. Lawrence

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

— T. E. Lawrence

“In my case, the effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of…

— T. E. Lawrence

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in…

— T. E. Lawrence