Quotes by T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

Animal

Blood

Riding

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

Hats

Protection

Sun

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.

Dream

Inspirational

Success

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!

Details

Ornaments

World

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.

Book

Finals

War

As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

Fighting

Long

Silly

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

Humour

Needs

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can’t all be lion tamers.

Arabia

Clubs

Lions

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

Hands

War

Winning

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.

Dream

Dreams Come True

Eye

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Action

Aimlessness

Air

Amount

Animal

Arabia

Army

Art

Artist

Artistic

Autumn

Beautiful

Beginnings And Endings

Believe

Blood

Book

Calamity

Children

Clothes

Clubs

Commanders

Contentment

Creeds

Desert

Details

Done

Dream

Dreams Come True

Dresses

Ease

Effort

Evil

Eye

Fate

Feelings

Fighting

Finals

Friendly

Garden

Half

Hands

Happens

Hats

Healthy

Heart

Heaven

Honor

Hours

Humour

Ideas

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Quotes by T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

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.

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!

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.

As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

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

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can’t all be lion tamers.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.

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