T. E. Lawrence Quotes

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.
T. E. Lawrence

Dreams, Men, May

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
T. E. Lawrence

Truth, Tell, Whatever

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T. E. Lawrence

Action, Waste, Sin

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
T. E. Lawrence

Value, News, Tail

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!
T. E. Lawrence

Bad, Save, Detail

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. Lawrence

True, Children, Parents

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.
T. E. Lawrence

Books, Test, Taught

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence

Family, Men, Free

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence

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

Greatest, Modern, Press

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.
T. E. Lawrence

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
T. E. Lawrence

Evil, May, Another

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

Hard, Honor, Escape

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

Words, Thought, Indeed

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: August 16, 1888

Died: May 19, 1935

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