All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

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.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

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

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

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