T. E. Lawrence Quotes
"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Action, Sin, Waste)
"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: News, Value)
"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Thought, Words)
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Press, Printing)
"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: People, Dignity, England, Honor, Will)
"The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: God)
"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 test of generals."
- T. E. Lawrence
"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 we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Men, Fear, Rebellion, Sea)
"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, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Children, Fault, Parents)
"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Truth, People, Results, Will)
"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!"
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Architecture, Detail, First, Will, World)
"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
(Related: Dreams, Men, Act, Day, Eyes, May, Night, Open)
"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 desert, under the indifferent heaven."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Circumstances, Evil, Heaven, May, Years)