Lawrence of Arabia (film) Quotes

Lawrence of Arabia (film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Lawrence of Arabia ended its run in 1970.

It features Sam Spiegel as producer, Maurice Jarre in charge of musical score, and Freddie Young as head of cinematography.

Lawrence of Arabia (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Lawrence of Arabia (film) is 180 or 220-222 minutes long. Lawrence of Arabia (film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy as Jackson Bentley, Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden, Zia Mohyeddin as Tafas, Ian MacNaughton as Hartley, Gamil Ratib as Majid, John Ruddock as Driver, Michel de Carvalho as Farraj, and John Dimech as Daud.

Lawrence of Arabia (film) Quotes

Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence

• (Turkish Bey) "Where did you get this wound?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "That is old, effendi."
• (Turkish Bey) "No, it is recent. You are a deserter. But from which army? Not that it matters at all. A man can't always be in uniform."

• (Sherif Ali) "What are you looking for?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Some way to announce myself."
• (Sherif Ali) "Be patient with him, God."

• (Auda abu Tayi) "You will cross Sinai?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Moses did."
• (Auda abu Tayi) "And you will take the children?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Moses did."
• (Auda abu Tayi) "Moses was a prophet and beloved of God."

• (Peter O'Toole) "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."
• (Sherif Ali) "Come. I will take you to Feisal."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I do not want your company, sherif."
• (Sherif Ali) "Wadi Safra is another day from here. You will not find it, and not finding it you will die."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I will find it with this."
• (Sherif Ali) "Good army compass. How if I take it?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Then you would be a thief."
• (Sherif Ali) "Have you no fear, English?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "My fear is my concern."
• (Sherif Ali) "Truly."
• (Sherif Ali) "God be with you English."

• (Prince Feisal) "But you know, Lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Yes, you were great."
• (Prince Feisal) "Nine centuries ago."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Time to be great again, my lord."

• (General Allenby) "What about your Arab friends? What about them?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "I have no Arab friends. I don't want Arab friends."
• (General Allenby) "What in Hell do you want, Lawrence?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "I told you. I just want my ration of common humanity."
• (Claude Rains) "Lawrence."
• (Claude Rains) "Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, Sir."
• (General Allenby) "Quite all right. Thank you, Mr Dryden. Look, why don't we, er -- There's blood on your back. Do you want a Doctor ?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "Do you think I'm just anybody, Ali? Do you?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state of a small city."

• (Prince Feisal) "The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Then you must deny it to them."
• (Prince Feisal) "You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "To England and to other things."
• (Prince Feisal) "To England and Arabia both? And is that possible? I think you are another of these desert-loving English."

• (General Allenby) "I believe your name will be a household word when you'll have to go to the War Museum to find who Allenby was. You're the most extraordinary man I've ever met."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Leave me alone."
• (General Allenby) "What?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Leave me alone."
• (General Allenby) "Well, that's a feeble thing to say."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I know I'm not ordinary."
• (General Allenby) "That's not what I'm saying --"
• (Peter O'Toole) "All right. I'm extraordinary. What of it?"

• (Unnamed) "This is a bar for British officers."
• (Peter O'Toole) "That's all right. We're not particular."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Look, Ali. If any of your Bedouin arrived in Cairo and said: "We've taken Aqaba" the generals would laugh."
• (Sherif Ali) "I see. In Cairo you will put off these funny clothes. You'll wear trousers and tell stories of our quaintness and barbarity and then they will believe you."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You're an ignorant man."

• (Prince Feisal) "You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "To England, and to other things."

• (Peter O'Toole) "No prisoners. No prisoners."

• (Colonel Brighton) "I've been waiting for you."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Did you know I was coming?"
• (Colonel Brighton) "I knew someone was coming. I mean Feisal told me."
• (Peter O'Toole) "How did he know?"
• (Colonel Brighton) "Not much happens within 50 miles of Feisal that Feisal doesn't know. I'll give him that -- no escort?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "My guide was killed at the Masturah well."
• (Colonel Brighton) "Turks?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "No, an Arab."
• (Colonel Brighton) "Bloody savages."

• (Peter O'Toole) "The Law says the man must die -- If he dies, would that content the Howitat?"
• (Auda abu Tayi) "Yes."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Sherif Ali. If none of lord Auda's men harms any of yours, will that content the Harith?"
• (Sherif Ali) "Yes."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Then I will execute the Law. I have no tribe and no one is offended."

• (General Allenby) "I'm promoting you Major."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I don't think that's a very good idea."

• (Sherif Ali) "God help the men that lie under that."
• (Peter O'Toole) "They are Turks."
• (Sherif Ali) "God help them."

• (Peter O'Toole) "The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me."

• (Prince Feisal) "Well, General, I will leave you. Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make upon my people and their weakness, and the need to keep them weak in the British interest -- and the French interest too, of course. We must not forget the French now --"
• (General Allenby) "I've told you, sir, no such treaty exists."
• (Prince Feisal) "Yes, General, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly. I know this treaty does exist."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Treaty, sir?"
• (Prince Feisal) "He does it better than you, General. But then, of course, he is almost an Arab."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Where are they now?"
• (Claude Rains) "Anywhere within 300 miles of Medina. They're Hashemite Bedouins. They can cross 60 miles of desert in a day."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Oh,thanks Dryden. This is going to be fun."
• (Claude Rains) "Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: Beduins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me. For ordinary men, it's a burning fiery furnace."
• (Peter O'Toole) "No,Dryden. It's going to be fun."
• (Claude Rains) "It is recognised that you have a funny sense of fun."

• (Peter O'Toole) "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."

• (Peter O'Toole) "My friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for money --"
• (Auda abu Tayi) "No."
• (Peter O'Toole) "-- for Feisal --"
• (Auda abu Tayi) "No."
• (Peter O'Toole) "-- nor to drive away the Turks. He will come -- because it is his pleasure."
• (Auda abu Tayi) "Thy mother mated with a scorpion."

• (General Allenby) "I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe."
• (Peter O'Toole) "We should do very well, then, shouldn't we?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "No, they're still there, but they've no boots. Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners; the entire garrison. No, that's not true. We killed some; too many, really. I'll manage it better next time. There's been a lot of killing, one way or another."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I pray that I may never see the desert again. Hear me, God."

• (Peter O'Toole) "We do not work this thing for Feisal."
• (Auda abu Tayi) "No? For the English, then?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "For the Arabs."
• (Auda abu Tayi) "The Arabs? The Howitat, Ajili, Rala, Beni Saha; these I know, I have even heard of the Harif, but the Arabs? What tribe is that?"

• (Sherif Ali) "I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman --"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Ali, he didn't marry my mother."
• (Sherif Ali) "I see."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I'm sorry."
• (Sherif Ali) "It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then."

• (Peter O'Toole) "My lord, I think -- I think your book is right. 'The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped' and on this ocean the Bedu go where they please and strike where they please. This is the way the Bedu have always fought. You're famed throughout the world for fighting in this way and this is the way you should fight now."

• (Peter O'Toole) "There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians."

• (Prince Feisal) "To be great again, it seems that we need the english -- or --"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Or?"
• (Prince Feisal) "What no man can provide, Mr. Lawrence. We need a miracle."

• (Prince Feisal) "Gasim's time has come, Lawrence. It is written."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Nothing is written."
• (Sherif Ali) "You will not be at Aqaba, English. Go back, blasphemer -- but you will not be at Aqaba."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I shall be at Aqaba. That, IS written."
• (Peter O'Toole) "In here."

• (Sherif Ali) "Have you no fear, English?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "My fear is my concern."

• (General Murray) "I can't make out whether you're bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I have the same problem, sir."

• (Peter O'Toole) "A thousand Arabs means a thousand knives, delivered anywhere day or night. It means a thousand camels. That means a thousand packs of high explosives and a thousand crack rifles. We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round, and smash his railways. And while he's mending them, I'll smash them somewhere else. In thirteen weeks, I can have Arabia in chaos."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Michael George Hartley, this is a nasty, dark little room."
• (Ian MacNaughton) "That's right."
• (Peter O'Toole) "We are not happy in it."
• (Ian MacNaughton) "It's better than a nasty, dark little trench."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Then you're an ignoble fellow."
• (Ian MacNaughton) "That's right."

• (Turkish Bey) "I have been stationed in Dara for three and a half years. If I were posted to the dark side of the moon I could not be more isolated. You don't have the slightest idea what I'm talking about, do you?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "No, effendi."
• (Turkish Bey) "Do you? No. That would be too -- lucky."

• (General Allenby) "Not many people have a destiny Lawrence. It's a terrible thing for a man to funk it if he has."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You're speaking from experience?"
• (General Allenby) "No."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You're guessing then."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I killed two people. One was -- yesterday? He was just a boy and I led him into quicksand. The other was -- well, before Aqaba. I had to execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I didn't like."
• (General Allenby) "That's to be expected."
• (Peter O'Toole) "No, something else."
• (General Allenby) "Well, then let it be a lesson."
• (Peter O'Toole) "No -- something else."
• (General Allenby) "What then?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "I enjoyed it."

• (Sherif Ali) "He is dead."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Yes -- why?"
• (Sherif Ali) "This is my well."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I have drunk from it."
• (Sherif Ali) "You are welcome."
• (Peter O'Toole) "He was my friend."
• (Sherif Ali) "That?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Yes, that."
• (Sherif Ali) "This pistol yours?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "No, his."
• (Sherif Ali) "His?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Mine."
• (Sherif Ali) "Then I will use it."
• (Sherif Ali) "-- your friend -- was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I know."
• (Sherif Ali) "I am Ali ibn el Kharish."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I have heard of you."
• (Sherif Ali) "So -- What was a Hazimi doing here?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "He was taking me to help Prince Feisal."
• (Sherif Ali) "You've been sent from Cairo?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Yes."
• (Sherif Ali) "I have been in Cairo for my schooling. I can both read and write -- my Lord Feisal already has an Englishman."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Yes."
• (Sherif Ali) "What is your name?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "My name is for my friend."
• (Peter O'Toole) "None of my friends is a murderer."
• (Sherif Ali) "You are angry, English."
• (Sherif Ali) "He was nothing. The well is everything -- The Hazimi may not drink at our wells. He knew that -- Salaam."

• (Peter O'Toole) "It's my manner, sir."
• (General Murray) "Your manner?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Yes. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't really."
• (General Murray) "Shut up -- and get out."

• (Club Secretary) "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers."

• (William Potter) "Ooh. It damn well 'urts."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Certainly it hurts."
• (Unnamed) "What's the trick then?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."

Arthur Kennedy as Jackson Bentley

• (Arthur Kennedy) "You answered without saying anything. That's politics."

• (Arthur Kennedy) "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."
• (Arthur Kennedy) "He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey."

• (Prince Feisal) "Do you know General Allenby?"
• (Arthur Kennedy) "Watch out for Allenby. He's a slim customer."
• (Prince Feisal) "Excuse me?"
• (Arthur Kennedy) "A clever man."
• (Prince Feisal) "Slim customer. It's very good -- I'll certainly watch out for him. you're being very sympathetic Mr. Bentley."

• (Arthur Kennedy) "Never saw a man killed with a sword before."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Why don't you take a picture?"
• (Arthur Kennedy) "Wish I had."

Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden

• (Claude Rains) "Well, I'll tell you. It's a little clash of temperament that's going on in there. Inevitably, one of them's half-mad; and the other, wholly unscrupulous."

• (Claude Rains) "If we've been telling lies, you've been telling half-lies. A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it."

• (General Allenby) "I've got orders to obey, thank God. Not like that poor devil. He's riding the whirlwind."
• (Claude Rains) "Let's hope we're not."

• (Claude Rains) "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."
• (Claude Rains) "Yes, sir. So you keep saying."

• (General Murray) "I may as well tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff that any time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted.They're a nation of sheep-stealers."
• (Claude Rains) "They did attack Medina."
• (General Murray) "And the Turks made mincemeat of them."
• (Claude Rains) "We don't know that."
• (General Murray) "We know that they didn't take it. A storm in a teacup, a sideshow. If you want my own opinion, this whole theatre of operations is a sideshow. The real war's being fought against Germans, not Turks. And not here, but on the Western front in the trenches. Your Bedouin Army, or whatever it calls itself would be a sideshow of a sideshow."
• (Claude Rains) "Big things have small beginnings, sir."
• (General Murray) "Does the Arab Bureau want a "big thing" in Arabia? If we get them to rise against the Turks, does the Bureau think they'll sit down quietly under us when this war's over?"
• (Claude Rains) "The Arab Bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war."
• (General Murray) "Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden."

• (General Murray) "It's a storm in a tea cup, Mr. Dryden; a sideshow. If you want my own opinion, this whole theater of operations is a sideshow. The real war's not being fought against the Turks, but the Germans. And not here, but on the Western front in the trenches. Your Bedouin Army; or whatever it calls itself; would be a sideshow OF a sideshow."
• (Claude Rains) "Big things have small beginnings, sir."
• (General Murray) "Does the Arab Bureau want a "big thing" in Arabia? If we get them to rise against the Turks, does the Bureau think they'll sit down quietly under us when this war's over?"
• (Claude Rains) "The Arab Bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war."
• (General Murray) "Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden."

John Ruddock as Driver

• (John Ruddock) "Well, sir, going home."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Mm?"
• (John Ruddock) "Home, sir."

Gamil Ratib as Majid

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Zia Mohyeddin as Tafas

• (Zia Mohyeddin) "Is that a desert country?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "No: a fat country. Fat people."
• (Zia Mohyeddin) "You are not fat?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "No. I'm different."

• (Zia Mohyeddin) "Here you may drink --"
• (Zia Mohyeddin) "One cup."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You do not drink?"
• (Zia Mohyeddin) "No."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I'll drink when you do."
• (Zia Mohyeddin) "I am Bedu."

Michel de Carvalho as Farraj

• (Michel de Carvalho) "Lord, can we not rest?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "I told you, no rest till they know that I have Aqaba -- Have you two slept in beds? Farraj? Daud? With sheets?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Tomorrow the finest sheets in the finest room, in the finest hotel in Cairo. I promise."
• (John Dimech) "Then it shall be so, Lord."

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