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The fringes of their deserts were strewn with broken faiths. — T.E. Lawrence

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day. — T.E. Lawrence

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it. — Vo Nguyen Giap

The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. — 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. — T.E. Lawrence

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

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars — T.E. Lawrence

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed ... — T.E. Lawrence

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. — T.E. Lawrence

Since the adventure some of those who worked with me have buried themselves in the shallow grave of public duty. — T.E. Lawrence

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T.E. Lawrence

Half a calamity is better than a whole one. — T.E. Lawrence

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. — T.E. Lawrence

The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen. — T.E. Lawrence

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

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it. — T.E. Lawrence

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. — T.E. Lawrence

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known. — T.E. Lawrence

My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away. — T.E. Lawrence

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

Always my soul hungered for less than it had — T.E. Lawrence

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. — 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

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander. — T.E. Lawrence

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling. — T.E. Lawrence

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge. — T.E. Lawrence

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

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. — T.E. Lawrence

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

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books. — T.E. Lawrence

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. — T.E. Lawrence

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly, — T.E. Lawrence

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them. — T.E. Lawrence