69 Quotes by T. E. Lawrence

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,