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

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

If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.

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

I wrote my will across the sky, in stars

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

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.