Colonel Brighton: Look, sir, we can't just do nothing.General Allenby: Why not? It's usually best.
And I must do it because the Turks have European guns. But I fear to do it. Upon my soul I do. The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia.
No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.
Prince Feisal: My friend Lawrence, if I may call him that. "My friend Lawrence". How many men will claim the right to use that phrase? How proudly! He longs for the greenness of his native land. He pines for the Gothic cottages of Surrey, is it not? Already in imagination, he catches trout and engages in all the activities of the English gentleman.General Allenby: That's me you're describing, sir, not Colonel Lawrence.
