T.E. Lawrence Quotes

All the best secrets are told at night.

Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.[points to self]

Among the countless people in the world, two will find each other against all the odds and beat as a single eternal heart.- Not First Love

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.

At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins.

His youth was a wingless Dodo.

She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.

Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

My mission is vague. I am here to appreciate the situation.

Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.

When I said that Mercy stoodWithin the borders of the wood, I meant the lenient beast with clawsAnd bloody swift-dispatching jaws.

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.

Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent cloud-edges.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day, " and it was only a small exaggeration.

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? I tell you Brady had the same right as Cates: the right to be wrong!

...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.

Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them.

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world.

The softest emotions of the heart are the hardest to control.- Not First Love

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

Perhaps it also demonstrates that any young girl can live quite healthily on coarse bread and clear water – so long as she has fine clothes.

Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go.

I once started outto walk around the worldbut ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Love is poetry plus biology.

They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken, ' I said.

...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...

It’s always better to sit on your dignity in private than to stand on it in public.

You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.

Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!

She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.

We must look hopeful.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.