T. E. Lawrence Quotes
1888–1935 Wales
Thomas Edward Lawrence [T. E.
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Also known as: Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence, T. E., Lawrence, Thomas Edward, T.E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Rebels, especially successful rebels, were of necessity bad subjects and worse governors.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars
To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,
that your eyes might be shining for me
When I came.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
The Revolt in the Desert (1927)
Birth seems to me so sorry and squalid an accident . . . if fathers and mothers took thought before bringing children into this misery of a world, only the monsters among them would dare to go through with it.
the sword also means clean-ness + death
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
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!
The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more. Logical outcomes were the reduction of this licence to privilege by the men of the desert, and their hardness to strangers unprovided with introduction or guarantee, since the common security lay in the common responsibility of kinsmen.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)