Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.
Read more T.E. Lawrence QuotesFrom: Lawrence of Arabia
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!
Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. My father, Mr Lawrence, not the English. But my father is old and I... I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba. However, before the gardens must come the fighting.
Colonel Brighton: Look, sir, we can't just do nothing.General Allenby: Why not? It's usually best.