Quotes from Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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Jack Hawkins
General Allenby: You acted without orders, you know.
T.E. Lawrence: Shouldn't officers use their initiative at all times?
General Allenby: Not really. It's awfully dangerous.
- Jack Hawkins (as General Allenby) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Peter O'Toole
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.
- Peter O'Toole (as T.E. Lawrence) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Anthony Quayle
Colonel Brighton: Damn it, Lawrence! Who do you take your orders from?
- Anthony Quayle (as Colonel Brighton) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Anthony Quayle
Colonel Brighton: I've been waiting for you.
T.E. Lawrence: Did you know I was coming?
Colonel Brighton: I knew someone was coming. I mean Feisal told me.
T.E. Lawrence: How did he know?
Colonel Brighton: Not much happens within 50 miles of Feisal that Feisal doesn't know. I'll give him that... no escort?
T.E. Lawrence: My guide was killed at the Masturah well.
Colonel Brighton: Turks?
T.E. Lawrence: No, an Arab.
Colonel Brighton: Bloody savages.
[They both ride away]
- Anthony Quayle (as Colonel Brighton) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Jack Hawkins
Colonel Brighton: Look, sir, we can't just do nothing.
General Allenby: Why not? It's usually best.
- Jack Hawkins (as General Allenby) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Peter O'Toole
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
T.E. Lawrence: Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.
- Peter O'Toole (as T.E. Lawrence) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Claude Rains
Mr. Dryden: [to Bentley, on a meeting between Lawrence and Allenby] Well, I'll tell you. It's a little clash of temperament that's going on in there. Inevitably, one of them's half-mad - and the other, wholly unscrupulous.
- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Claude Rains
Mr. Dryden: A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Claude Rains
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.
- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Claude Rains
Mr. Dryden: Well. It seems we're to have a British waterworks with an Arab flag on it. Do you think it was worth it?
General Allenby: Not my business. Thank God I'm a soldier.
Mr. Dryden: Yes, sir. So you keep saying.
- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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