Quotes by T. E. Lawrence
“A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.”— T. E. Lawrence
“For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.”— T. E. Lawrence
“We were a self-centered army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it denied all our normal instincts.”— T. E. Lawrence
“The Arabs are a people of primary colours, or rather of black and white, who live habitually at the extremes.”— T. E. Lawrence
“The sword also means clean-ness and death. So does the desert, just as clean and just as potent.”— T. E. Lawrence
“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.”— T. E. Lawrence
“There was my craving to be famous; and a horror of being known to like being known.”— 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 is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.”— T. E. Lawrence
“Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.”— T. E. Lawrence
“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 it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”— T. E. Lawrence
“Better to let them do it imperfectly than to do it perfectly yourself, for it is their country, their war, and your time is short.”— T. E. Lawrence