64 Quotes by T.E. Lawrence

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

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.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

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.

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

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

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.