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.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

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

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

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

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

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