Lawrence of Arabia

Chesley 2022-04-21 09:01:17

1. TE Lawrence (1888-1935), a poet, scholar, and valiant warrior - at the same time considered to be the most shameless ecstasy since Barnum and Bailey, played a decisive role in the situation in the Middle East, and eventually died in a A retrograde car accident.

2. For some men, nothing is written unless they write it.

3. You answered without saying anything, and that's politics.

4. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men...courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men...mistrust and caution.

5. One more thing, the Turkish military officer has a line "If they posted me to the dark side of the moon, I could not be more...isolated." - Pink Floyd released an album 11 years later, of course the two It doesn't matter (the latter is influenced by John Lennon & the Plastic ONO BAND).

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Lawrence of Arabia quotes

  • Sherif Ali: I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman...

    T.E. Lawrence: Ali, he didn't marry my mother.

    Sherif Ali: I see.

    T.E. Lawrence: I'm sorry.

    Sherif Ali: It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then.

  • Mr. Dryden: Well. It seems we're to have a British waterworks with an Arab flag on it. Do you think it was worth it?

    General Allenby: Not my business. Thank God I'm a soldier.

    Mr. Dryden: Yes, sir. So you keep saying.