Anthony Quinn credited as playing...
Auda Abu Tayi
- 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.
- Auda abu Tayi: It is Auda of the Howitat who speaks.
- Sherif Ali: It is Ali of the Harith who answers.
- Auda abu Tayi: Harith! Ali, does your father still steal?
- Sherif Ali: No. Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards?
- Auda abu Tayi: No, there is no resemblance. Alas, you resemble your father.
- Sherif Ali: Auda flatters me.
- Auda abu Tayi: You're easily flattered. I knew your father well.
- Sherif Ali: Did you know your own?
- Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve?
- Howeitat tribesmen: NO!
- Auda abu Tayi: Does Auda abu Tayi serve?
- Howeitat tribesmen: NO!
- Auda abu Tayi: [to Lawrence] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people!
- 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: 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?
- Auda abu Tayi: When Lawrence finds what he's looking for, he will go home. When you find what you are looking for, you will go home.
- Colonel Brighton: I will not.
- Auda abu Tayi: Then you are a fool. Be thankful that when God made you a fool, He gave you a fool's face.
- Auda abu Tayi: What ails the Englishman?
- Sherif Ali: The one he killed is the one he brought out of the Nefud.
- Auda abu Tayi: It was written then. Better to have left him there.
- T.E. Lawrence: The Law says the man must die... If he dies, would that content the Howitat?
- Auda abu Tayi: Yes.
- T.E. Lawrence: Sherif Ali. If none of lord Auda's men harms any of yours, will that content the Harith?
- Sherif Ali: Yes.
- T.E. Lawrence: Then I will execute the Law. I have no tribe and no one is offended.
- Auda abu Tayi: [Grabs Ali's arm] He is your friend?
- Sherif Ali: Take your hand away.
- Auda abu Tayi: You love him.
- Sherif Ali: No, I fear him.
- Auda abu Tayi: Then why do you weep?
- Sherif Ali: If I fear him, who love him, how must he fear himself who hates himself?
- [Pulls away violently and points his sword at Tayi]
- Sherif Ali: Take your hand away, Howeitat!
- Auda abu Tayi: Oh... So you are not yet entirely politician?
- Sherif Ali: Not yet.
- Auda abu Tayi: Well, these are new tricks, and I am an old dog. And Allah be thanked. I'll tell thee what, though, being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith!
- Colonel Brighton: Major Lawrence will campaign this winter, but you've got what you wanted so you're going home. Is that it?
- Auda abu Tayi: Of course. When Orens has got what he wants, he will go home. When you have got what you want, you will go home.
- Colonel Brighton: Oh no I shan't Auda.
- Auda abu Tayi: Then you are a fool.
- Colonel Brighton: Maybe. I am not a deserter.
- Auda abu Tayi: Give thanks to God, Brighton, that when He made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face.
- Colonel Brighton: You are an impudent rascal.
- Auda abu Tayi: I must go, Orens, before I soil myself with a fool's blood.
- Colonel Brighton: It's like talking to a brick wall.