Great Quotes from Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence: "Michael George Hartley, this is a nasty, dark little room."
Hartley: "That's right."
Lawrence: "We are not happy in it."
Hartley: "I am, it's better than a nasty, dark little trench."
Lawrence: "Then you're an ignoble fellow."
Hartley: "That's right."
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(Lawrence has
extinguished a match with his fingers, Potter attempts to do the same)
Potter: "Ooh! It damn well 'urts!"
Lawrence: "Certainly it hurts."
Potter: "What's the trick then?"
Lawrence: "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."
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Club Secretary: "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"
Lawrence: "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers."
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Murray: (Lawrence
has just given a rather awful salute) "If you're insubordinate of me,
Lawrence, I shall put you under arrest!"
Lawrence: "It's
my manner, sir."
Murray: "Your
what?"
Lawrence: "My
manner, sir. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't really."
Murray: "I
can't make out whether you are bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted!"
Lawrence: "I
have the same problem, sir."
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Lawrence: "'I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city'....Themistocles, sir, a Greek philosopher."
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Dryden: "Big
things have small beginnings."
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Lawrence: (enters
the room, and walks right up to a large statue of a cat) "Oh, that's
new." [I find this hilarious!]
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Lawrence: "Oh,
thanks, Dryden. This is going to be fun."
Dryden:
"Lawrence, only two kinds of creatures get fun in the desert: Bedouins and
gods -- and you are neither. Take it from me -- for ordinary men, it's a
burning, fiery furnace."
Lawrence: "No,
Dryden, it is going to be fun." [This is followed by that awesome match to
sun scene!!]
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Bedouin Guide: (referring to Britain) "Is that a desert country?"
Lawrence: "No, a fat country, fat people."
Bedouin Guide: "You are not fat?"
Lawrence: "No, I am different."
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Sherif Ali: "What is your name?"
Lawrence: "My name is for my friends. None of my friends is a murderer!"
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Lawrence:
"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will
they be a little people, a silly people -- greedy, barbarous and cruel,
as you are."
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Feisal: "With
Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may
judge which motive is the most reliable."
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Feisal: "No
Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees."
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Auda: "Does
your father still steal?"
Ali: "No. Does
Auda take me for one of his own bastards?"
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Auda: "I am Auda Abu Tayi! Does Auda serve?
Crowd: "No!"
Auda (to Lawrence): "I carry twenty-three great wounds all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!"
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Lawrence:
"First, I want a room, with a bed, with sheets."
Brighton: "Yes,
yes of course."
Lawrence: (pointing
at Farraj) "It's for him!"
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Lawrence: "I killed two people. I mean, two Arabs. One was a boy. That was...yesterday. I led him into a quicksand. The other was a man. That was...well...before Aqaba, anyway. I had to execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I didn't like."
Allenby: "Well, naturally."
Lawrence: "No, something else."
Allenby: "I see. Well, that's alright, let it be a warning."
Lawrence: "No...something else."
Allenby: "What then?"
Lawrence: "I enjoyed it." [Does your heart stop or what?]
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Lawrence: "Do
you think I'm just anybody, Ali? Do you?"
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Lawrence: "Not
hurt at all. Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet."
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Allenby: "I've
told you, sir, no such treaty exists."
Feisal: "Yes,
general, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly. I know this treaty
does exist."
Lawrence:
"Treaty, sir?"
Feisal: (referring
to Lawrence) "He does it better than you, general. But, of
course, he is almost an Arab."
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Allenby: "Are
you mad?"
Lawrence: "No.
And if you don't mind, I'd rather not go mad."
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Allenby:
"You're an important part of the Big Push!"
Lawrence: "I
don't want to be part of your big push!!"
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Allenby: "What
in hell do you want, Lawrence?"
Lawrence: "I've
told you -- I just want my ration of common humanity."
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Lawrence: "I
know I'm not ordinary..."
Allenby:
"That's not what I'm saying.."
Lawrence:
"Alright! I'm extraordinary -- what of it?"
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Lawrence: "I shall
want quite a lot of money."
Allenby: "All
there is."
Lawrence: "Not
that much. The best of them won't come for money -- they'll come for me.
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