Quotes by : T.E. Lawrence

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being....

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.....

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend....

We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and....

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the....

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

I spent hours apart by myself, taking stock of where I stood, mentally, on this my thirtieth birthday.....

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent....

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up....

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries....

The Howeitat spread out along the cliffs to return the peasants' fire. This manner of going displeased....