Know each other as if your were brothers; negotiate deals as if you were strangers to each other.
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
I came to the place of my birth and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?"
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and rop makes an inundation.
There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?” he would answer him “I am he.
Prince Feisal: 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.
Cal: “I’m not presuming. I know exactly what you think about me. You think I’m an anal-retentive Armrest Nazi . . . an arrogant Modelizer. You can’t stand the way I talk, any of the subjects I choose to talk about, the imperious manner I orde...
Your tongue is like a horse -- if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you treat it badly, it treats you badly.
[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer.
If a rich man ate a snake, they would say it was because of his wisdom; if a poor man ate it, they would say it was because of his stupidity.
A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping o...
T.E. Lawrence: No prisoners! No prisoners!
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
Auda abu Tayi: Thine mother mated with a scorpion.
Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de ...
Prince Feisal: What I owe you is beyond evaluation.
We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
