More from Thomas Edward Lawrence

  1. There could be no honor in sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat
  2. With two thousand years of examples behind us, we have no excuses when fighting for not fighting well.
  3. The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
  4. There is no other man I know who could have achieved what Lawrence did. As for taking undue credit for himself, my own personal experience …
  5. The Wahabis, followers of a fanatical Moslem heresy, had imposed their strict rules on easy and civilized Kasim. In Kasim there was but lit…
  6. I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time... We shall never see his like again. His name will live in history. It will live i…
  7. Feisal asked me if I would wear Arab clothes like his own while in the camp. I should find it better for my own part, since it was a comfor…
  8. The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The w…

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