quotes
William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts!
T.E. Lawrence:
Certainly it hurts.
Officer: What's
the trick then?
T.E. Lawrence:
The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
T.E. Lawrence:
It's my manner, sir.
General Murray:
Your manner?
T.E. Lawrence:
Yes. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't really.
General Murray:
I can't make out whether you're a bloody madman or just half-witted.
T.E. Lawrence:
I have the same problem, sir.
Club Secretary:
I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
T.E. Lawrence:
We can't all be lion tamers.
Tafas: [talking
of Britain] Is that a desert country?
T.E. Lawrence:
No: a fat country. Fat people.
Tafas: You are
not fat?
T.E. Lawrence:
No. I'm different.
Sherif Ali:
Have you no fear, English?
T.E. Lawrence:
My fear is my concern.
Auda abu Tayi:
[to Lawrence] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle.
Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter,
I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks
pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my
people!
T.E. Lawrence:
My friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for
money...
Auda abu Tayi:
No.
T.E. Lawrence:
...for Feisal...
Auda abu Tayi:
No!
T.E. Lawrence:
...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come... because it is his
pleasure.
Auda abu Tayi:
[pause] Thy mother mated with a scorpion.
T.E. Lawrence:
Nothing is written.
Auda abu Tayi:
[as Lawrence sets out across the desert with Daoud and Faraj] You will
cross Sinai?
T.E. Lawrence:
Moses did!
Auda abu Tayi:
And you will take the children?
T.E. Lawrence:
Moses did!
T.E. Lawrence:
I killed two people. One was... yesterday? He was just a boy and I led
him into quicksand. The other was... well, before Aqaba. I had to
execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I
didn't like.
General Allenby:
That's to be expected.
T.E. Lawrence:
No, something else.
General Allenby:
Well, then let it be a lesson.
T.E. Lawrence:
No... something else.
General Allenby:
What then?
T.E. Lawrence:
I enjoyed it.
Sherif Ali:
Does it surprise you, Mr Bentley? Surely, you know the Arabs are a
barbarous people. Barbarous and cruel.
Who but they! Who but they!
Jackson Bentley:
Never saw a man killed with a sword before.
T.E. Lawrence:
[contemptuously] Why don't you take a picture?
Jackson Bentley:
Wish I had.
Colonel Brighton:
Are you badly hurt?
T.E. Lawrence:
I'm not hurt at all. Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a
golden bullet.
Jackson Bentley:
What attracts you personally to the desert?
T.E. Lawrence:
It's clean.
Prince Feisal:
With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good
manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
T.E. Lawrence:
The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me.
T.E. Lawrence:
Do you think I'm just anyone? Do you?
Sherif Ali:
What are you looking for?
T.E. Lawrence:
Some way to announce myself.
Sherif Ali: Be
patient with him, God.
T.E. Lawrence:
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
T.E. Lawrence:
I pray that I may never see the desert again. Hear me, God.
