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Lawrence of Arabia Quotes
Well nil nisi bonum. But I find something... disproportionate in all this.
Colonel Brighton:
He was a remarkable chap. By any counts, remarkable.
Vicar at St. Paul's:
Did you know him well?
Colonel Brighton:
I knew him.
Club Secretary:
I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
T.E. Lawrence:
We can't all be lion tamers.
General Murray:
I can't make out whether you're bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted.
T.E. Lawrence:
I have the same problem, sir.
T.E. Lawrence:
Do you think I'm just anybody, Ali? Do you?
Sherif Ali:
What is your name?
T.E. Lawrence:
My name is for my friends. None of my friends is a murderer!
[asked by reporter if he knew Lawrence]
Jackson Bentley:
Yes, it was my privilege to know him and to make him known to the world. He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior.[after reporter leaves]
Jackson Bentley:
He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey.
T.E. Lawrence:
Michael George Hartley, this is a nasty, dark little room.
Hartley:
That's right.
T.E. Lawrence:
We are not happy in it.
Hartley:
It's better than a nasty, dark little trench.
T.E. Lawrence:
Then you're an ignoble fellow.
Hartley:
That's right.
Jackson Bentley:
What attracts you personally to the desert?
T.E. Lawrence:
It's clean.
T.E. Lawrence:
The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me.
Driver:
Well, sir, going home!
T.E. Lawrence:
Mm?
[realizes that he has been addressed]
Driver:
Home, sir!
[an army lorry passes. It carries Tommies singing a music hall ditty of the period: "Goodbye Dolly, I must leave you..."]
Movie Quotes
1960s Oscar Winners for Best Picture:1969: Midnight Cowboy
1968: Oliver!
1967: In the Heat of the Night
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1965: The Sound of Music
1964: My Fair Lady
1963: Tom Jones
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1961: West Side Story
1960: The Apartment
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