This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

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.

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

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

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

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

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.