Peter O'Toole credited as playing...
Lawrence
- [Lawrence has just extinguished a match between his thumb and forefinger. William Potter surreptitiously attempts the same]
- William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts!
- T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.
- Officer: What's the trick then?
- T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
- T.E. Lawrence: 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.
- T.E. Lawrence: No, something else.
- General Allenby: Well, then let it be a lesson.
- T.E. Lawrence: No... something else.
- General Allenby: What then?
- T.E. Lawrence: I enjoyed it.
- T.E. Lawrence: My friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for money...
- Auda abu Tayi: No.
- T.E. Lawrence: ...for Feisal...
- Auda abu Tayi: No!
- T.E. Lawrence: ...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come... because it is his pleasure.
- [pause]
- Auda abu Tayi: Thy mother mated with a scorpion.
- Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?
- T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.
- Prince Feisal: Gasim's time has come, Lawrence. It is written.
- T.E. Lawrence: Nothing is written.
- Sherif Ali: You will not be at Aqaba, English! Go back, blasphemer... but you will not be at Aqaba!
- T.E. Lawrence: I shall be at Aqaba. That, IS written.
- [pointing to forehead]
- T.E. Lawrence: In here.
- Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
- T.E. Lawrence: Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.
- Colonel Brighton: Are you badly hurt?
- T.E. Lawrence: I'm not hurt at all. Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet.
- Mr. Dryden: Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me, for ordinary men, it's a burning, fiery furnace.
- T.E. Lawrence: No, Dryden, it's going to be fun.
- Mr. Dryden: It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun.
- 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.
- Auda abu Tayi: [as Lawrence sets out across the desert with Daoud and Faraj] You will cross Sinai?
- T.E. Lawrence: Moses did!
- Auda abu Tayi: And you will take the children?
- T.E. Lawrence: Moses did!
- Auda abu Tayi: Moses was a prophet and beloved of God!
- T.E. Lawrence: 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: What is your name?
- T.E. Lawrence: My name is for my friends. None of my friends is a murderer!
- Sherif Ali: I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman...
- T.E. Lawrence: Ali, he didn't marry my mother.
- Sherif Ali: I see.
- T.E. Lawrence: I'm sorry.
- Sherif Ali: It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then.
- Tafas: [talking of Britain] Is that a desert country?
- T.E. Lawrence: No: a fat country. Fat people.
- Tafas: You are not fat?
- T.E. Lawrence: No. I'm different.
- Jackson Bentley: Never saw a man killed with a sword before.
- T.E. Lawrence: [contemptuously] Why don't you take a picture?
- Jackson Bentley: Wish I had.
- T.E. Lawrence: 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!
- T.E. Lawrence: We do not work this thing for Feisal.
- Auda abu Tayi: No? For the English, then?
- T.E. Lawrence: 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?
- 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.