Lawrence of Arabia Quotes
General Allenby: What about your Arab friends? What about them?
T.E. Lawrence: I have no Arab friends. I don't want Arab friends !
General Allenby: What in Hell do you want, Lawrence?
T.E. Lawrence: I told you! I just want my ration of common humanity.
Mr. Dryden: Lawrence! [Lawrence turns away from Allenby to face Dryden]
Mr. Dryden: Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, Sir.
General Allenby: [subdued] Quite all right. Thank you, Mr Dryden. Look, why don't we, er... There's blood on your back. Do you want a Doctor ?
T.E. Lawrence: I have no Arab friends. I don't want Arab friends !
General Allenby: What in Hell do you want, Lawrence?
T.E. Lawrence: I told you! I just want my ration of common humanity.
Mr. Dryden: Lawrence! [Lawrence turns away from Allenby to face Dryden]
Mr. Dryden: Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, Sir.
General Allenby: [subdued] Quite all right. Thank you, Mr Dryden. Look, why don't we, er... There's blood on your back. Do you want a Doctor ?
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Jackson Bentley: [on his interest in Lawrence and the Arab Revolt] I'm looking for a hero.
Prince Feisal: Indeed, you do not seem a romantic man.
Jackson Bentley: Oh, no! But certain influential men back home believe the time has come for America to lend her weight to the patriotic struggle against Germany... and Turkey. Now, I've been sent to find material that makes this war seem more...
Prince Feisal: Enjoyable?
Jackson Bentley: Oh, hardly THAT, sir. But to show it in its more... adventurous aspects.
Prince Feisal: You are looking for a figure that will draw your country towards war?
Jackson Bentley: All right, yes.
Prince Feisal: Lawrence is your man.
Prince Feisal: Indeed, you do not seem a romantic man.
Jackson Bentley: Oh, no! But certain influential men back home believe the time has come for America to lend her weight to the patriotic struggle against Germany... and Turkey. Now, I've been sent to find material that makes this war seem more...
Prince Feisal: Enjoyable?
Jackson Bentley: Oh, hardly THAT, sir. But to show it in its more... adventurous aspects.
Prince Feisal: You are looking for a figure that will draw your country towards war?
Jackson Bentley: All right, yes.
Prince Feisal: Lawrence is your man.
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Tafas: [talking of Britain] Is that a desert country?
T.E. Lawrence: No: a fat country. Fat people.
Tafas: You are not fat?
T.E. Lawrence: No. I'm different.
T.E. Lawrence: No: a fat country. Fat people.
Tafas: You are not fat?
T.E. Lawrence: No. I'm different.
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T.E. Lawrence: I killed two people. One was... yesterday? He was just a boy and I led him into quicksand. The other was... well, before Aqaba. I had to execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I didn't like.
General Allenby: That's to be expected.
T.E. Lawrence: No, something else.
General Allenby: Well, then let it be a lesson.
T.E. Lawrence: No... something else.
General Allenby: What then?
T.E. Lawrence: I enjoyed it.
General Allenby: That's to be expected.
T.E. Lawrence: No, something else.
General Allenby: Well, then let it be a lesson.
T.E. Lawrence: No... something else.
General Allenby: What then?
T.E. Lawrence: I enjoyed it.
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T.E. Lawrence: I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state of a small city.
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[Lawrence has just extinguished a match between his thumb and forefinger. William Potter surreptitiously attempts the same]
William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts!
T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.
Officer: What's the trick then?
T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts!
T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.
Officer: What's the trick then?
T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
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Sherif Ali : There is the railway. And that is the desert. From here until we reach the other side, no water but what we carry with us. For the camels, no water at all. If the camels die, we die. And in twenty days they will start to die.
T.E. Lawrence : There's no time to waste, then, is there?
T.E. Lawrence : There's no time to waste, then, is there?
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Auda abu Tayi : I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve?
Howeitat tribesmen : NO!
Auda abu Tayi : Does Auda abu Tayi serve?
Howeitat tribesmen : NO!
Auda abu Tayi : [ to Lawrence ] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people!
Howeitat tribesmen : NO!
Auda abu Tayi : Does Auda abu Tayi serve?
Howeitat tribesmen : NO!
Auda abu Tayi : [ to Lawrence ] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people!
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T.E. Lawrence : My friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for money...
Auda abu Tayi : No.
T.E. Lawrence : ...for Feisal...
Auda abu Tayi : No!
T.E. Lawrence : ...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come... because it is his pleasure. [ pause ]
Auda abu Tayi : Thy mother mated with a scorpion.
Auda abu Tayi : No.
T.E. Lawrence : ...for Feisal...
Auda abu Tayi : No!
T.E. Lawrence : ...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come... because it is his pleasure. [ pause ]
Auda abu Tayi : Thy mother mated with a scorpion.
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Club Secretary : I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
T.E. Lawrence : Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.
T.E. Lawrence : Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.
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General Allenby : I thought I was a hard man, sir.
Prince Feisal : You are merely a general. I must be a king.
Prince Feisal : You are merely a general. I must be a king.
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T.E. Lawrence : I pray that I may never see the desert again. Hear me, God.
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T.E. Lawrence : I killed two people. One was... yesterday? He was just a boy and I led him into quicksand. The other was... well, before Aqaba. I had to execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I didn't like.
General Allenby : That's to be expected.
T.E. Lawrence : No, something else.
General Allenby : Well, then let it be a lesson.
T.E. Lawrence : No... something else.
General Allenby : What then?
T.E. Lawrence : I enjoyed it.
General Allenby : That's to be expected.
T.E. Lawrence : No, something else.
General Allenby : Well, then let it be a lesson.
T.E. Lawrence : No... something else.
General Allenby : What then?
T.E. Lawrence : I enjoyed it.
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General Murray : I can't make out whether you're bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted.
T.E. Lawrence : I have the same problem, sir.
T.E. Lawrence : I have the same problem, sir.
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General Allenby : I'm promoting you Major.
T.E. Lawrence : I don't think that's a very good idea.
T.E. Lawrence : I don't think that's a very good idea.
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Sherif Ali : What is your name?
T.E. Lawrence : My name is for my friends. None of my friends is a murderer!
T.E. Lawrence : My name is for my friends. None of my friends is a murderer!
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T.E. Lawrence : I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state of a small city.
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[ asked by reporter if he knew Lawrence ]
Jackson Bentley : Yes, it was my privilege to know him and to make him known to the world. He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior. [ after reporter leaves ]
Jackson Bentley : He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey.
Jackson Bentley : Yes, it was my privilege to know him and to make him known to the world. He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior. [ after reporter leaves ]
Jackson Bentley : He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey.
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[ Arabs are looting a train after blowing it up ]
Sherif Ali : It is their payment, Colonel.
Colonel Brighton : Payment?
Sherif Ali : Truly, are not British soldiers paid?
Colonel Brighton : They don't go home when they've been paid!
Sherif Ali : They are not free to!
Sherif Ali : It is their payment, Colonel.
Colonel Brighton : Payment?
Sherif Ali : Truly, are not British soldiers paid?
Colonel Brighton : They don't go home when they've been paid!
Sherif Ali : They are not free to!
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Tafas : [ talking of Britain ] Is that a desert country?
T.E. Lawrence : No: a fat country. Fat people.
Tafas : You are not fat?
T.E. Lawrence : No. I'm different.
T.E. Lawrence : No: a fat country. Fat people.
Tafas : You are not fat?
T.E. Lawrence : No. I'm different.
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General Murray : [ on the Arab Revolt ] It's a storm in a tea cup, Mr. Dryden - a sideshow. If you want my own opinion, this whole theater of operations is a sideshow! The real war's not being fought against the Turks, but the Germans. And not here, but on the Western front in the trenches! Your Bedouin Army - or whatever it calls itself - would be a sideshow OF a sideshow!
Mr. Dryden : Big things have small beginnings, sir.
General Murray : Does the Arab Bureau want a "big thing" in Arabia? If we get them to rise against the Turks, does the Bureau think they'll sit down quietly under us when this war's over?
Mr. Dryden : The Arab Bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war.
General Murray : Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden!
Mr. Dryden : Big things have small beginnings, sir.
General Murray : Does the Arab Bureau want a "big thing" in Arabia? If we get them to rise against the Turks, does the Bureau think they'll sit down quietly under us when this war's over?
Mr. Dryden : The Arab Bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war.
General Murray : Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden!
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General Allenby : [ the British army staff is having a field briefing ] Very well, gentlemen. The cavalry's gone through Mazril and Deraa. Very good, by the way, very good indeed. Now your turn.
Artilery general, field briefing : Well, sir, if the enemy's retreating in any kind of order - which we'd better assume...
General Allenby : Certainly.
Artilery general, field briefing : ...Then they can't be further than this Mallud place. In which case I can have them within range by... 0900 hours tomorrow?
General Allenby : Splendid! Phillip.
Infantry general, field briefing : Well, these [ referring to British soldiers marching in the background ]
Infantry general, field briefing : are the last of the infantry supports coming up now, sir. But Mallud... could have the fusilliers there by... Wednesday, sir?
General Allenby : That'll do for now. The guns are what matter! Any questions?
Cavalry general, field briefing : This Arab army on the right, sir - what's it consist of?
Colonel Brighton : Irregular cavalry, sir. About two thousand.
Cavalry general, field briefing : Where are they now?
Colonel Brighton : Can only know that by being with them, sir.
General Allenby : Then get with them, Harry! I want to know.
Colonel Brighton : Yes, sir.
General Allenby : Pound them, Charley - [ strikes blackboard with his fist ]
General Allenby : POUND THEM!
Artilery general, field briefing : Well, sir, if the enemy's retreating in any kind of order - which we'd better assume...
General Allenby : Certainly.
Artilery general, field briefing : ...Then they can't be further than this Mallud place. In which case I can have them within range by... 0900 hours tomorrow?
General Allenby : Splendid! Phillip.
Infantry general, field briefing : Well, these [ referring to British soldiers marching in the background ]
Infantry general, field briefing : are the last of the infantry supports coming up now, sir. But Mallud... could have the fusilliers there by... Wednesday, sir?
General Allenby : That'll do for now. The guns are what matter! Any questions?
Cavalry general, field briefing : This Arab army on the right, sir - what's it consist of?
Colonel Brighton : Irregular cavalry, sir. About two thousand.
Cavalry general, field briefing : Where are they now?
Colonel Brighton : Can only know that by being with them, sir.
General Allenby : Then get with them, Harry! I want to know.
Colonel Brighton : Yes, sir.
General Allenby : Pound them, Charley - [ strikes blackboard with his fist ]
General Allenby : POUND THEM!
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Mr. Dryden : A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
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Prince Feisal : There's nothing further here for a warrior. We drive bargains. Old men's work. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace. And the vices of peace are the vices of old men. Mistrust and caution. It must be so.
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T.E. Lawrence : Michael George Hartley, this is a nasty, dark little room.
Hartley : That's right.
T.E. Lawrence : We are not happy in it.
Hartley : It's better than a nasty, dark little trench.
T.E. Lawrence : Then you're an ignoble fellow.
Hartley : That's right.
Hartley : That's right.
T.E. Lawrence : We are not happy in it.
Hartley : It's better than a nasty, dark little trench.
T.E. Lawrence : Then you're an ignoble fellow.
Hartley : That's right.
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[ Lawrence has just extinguished a match between his thumb and forefinger. William Potter surreptitiously attempts the same ]
William Potter : Ooh! It damn well 'urts!
T.E. Lawrence : Certainly it hurts.
Officer : What's the trick then?
T.E. Lawrence : The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
William Potter : Ooh! It damn well 'urts!
T.E. Lawrence : Certainly it hurts.
Officer : What's the trick then?
T.E. Lawrence : The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
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Sherif Ali : Have you no fear, English?
T.E. Lawrence : My fear is my concern.
T.E. Lawrence : My fear is my concern.
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Prince Feisal : With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
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