Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

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

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

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

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.