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

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

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.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

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