“Lawrence of Arabia” quotes
(1962)
Title Lawrence of Arabia
Year 1962
Director David Lean
Genre Drama, Biography, Adventure
Year 1962
Director David Lean
Genre Drama, Biography, Adventure
Plot – The British lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent among the Arabic tribes who are rising up against the Turkish government to rekindle the riot. After the brave conquest of Aqaba, the lieutenant becomes a charismatic Arabs’ guide, he assumes the local habits and now wants to emancipate the tribes, clashing with the English government’s interests. His adventures create an atmosphere of invincibility, which is so psychologically intense that leads him to self-destruction. He becomes a burden, so he gets excluded. However, the Arabs recognize to be ready to create an unitary state.
All actors – Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit, I.S. Johar, Gamil Ratib, Michel Ray, John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Jack Gwillim, Hugh Miller, , Robert Rietty, John Barry, Bruce Beeby, Fred Bennett, John Bennett, Steve Birtles, Robert Bolt, Peter Burton, J.R.M. Chapman, Tim Clutterbuck, Barbara Cole, John Crewdson, Basil Dignam, Peter Dukelow, Mohamed El Habachi, Kenneth Fortescue, Harry Fowler, James Hayter, Jack Hedley, Rafael Hernández, Bert Holliday, Noel Howlett, Cher Kaoiu, Patrick Kavanagh, David Lean, Ian MacNaughton, Clive Morton, Daniel Moynihan, Henry Oscar, George Plimpton, Bryan Pringle, Kamal Rashid, Ernie Rice, John Robinson, Norman Rossington, John Ruddock, Fernando Sancho, Stuart Saunders, Cyril Shaps, Roy Stevens, Barry Warren
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“There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.”
“Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it.”
“If we've been telling lies, you've been telling half-lies. A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.”
“- Jackson Bentley: What is it, Major Lawrence, that attracts you personally to the desert?
- T.E. Lawrence: It's clean.”“No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.”
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