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Elder Aaron Davis: I didn't come to unload on you.
Lila: You gave me the opportunity once. Let me return the favor.
Elder Aaron Davis: All right after we met, I was sent home and excommunicated from my church... for being gay.
Lila: Your church doesn't like alcohol or homosexuals. Hmm... Well, I definitely won't be joining. Can't imagine heaven without both. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[on the phone with Julie]
Christian: Where did we end up last night?
Julie: I don't know, but I woke up without my bra. That's never a good sign.
[notices he's wearing it]
Christian: I wouldn't worry about it. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Ryder: God hates homos.
Christian Markelli: You're gonna come into my home and tell me God hates homosexuals?
Elder Aaron Davis: And the French.
Ryder: [puzzled] God hates the French?
Elder Aaron Davis: Everyone hates the French. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[reading a tabloid]
Christian Markelli: Oh, my... say it isn't so.
Keith Griffin: What?
Christian Markelli: Well, apparently, poor Pam Anderson has had her breast implants taken out and put back in so many times that her entire chest is collapsing.
[squealing]
Christian Markelli: They have bikini pictures! They're horrible!
Keith Griffin: Shut up.
Christian Markelli: No, they are - seriously. They're down to her knees. Eat your chicken and I'll show you.
Keith Griffin: Prick.
[does as he's asked]
Keith Griffin: Okay, gimme the fucking magazine. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[joking around with Christian]
Elder Aaron Davis: Dude, you're way too easy.
Christian Markelli: [seductively] So I've been told. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Julie Taylor: Why don't we play two-on-two?
Ryder: But you're...
Julie Taylor: A girl? So I can't play. But then again, I am black, so maybe I can. You're problem's gonna be deciding which one of your narrow-minded stereotypes is gonna kick your lily-white ass.
Ryder: Yeah, right.
Julie Taylor: Afraid you'll get beat?
Christian Markelli: By a girl and a fag? (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[playing basketball]
Elder Aaron Davis: You can play.
Christian Markelli: That's just one of my skills. I played in high school... found out all the hot jocks were doing it, but only with other jocks. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[after having sex with Christian]
Elder Aaron Davis: Well, I'm already going to Hell for kissing you, so I may as well take the scenic route. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[chastising a major actress]
Traci Levine: Thank God. She's finally leaving.
Andrew: Can you believe Entertainment Weekly called her "the new sweetheart of American cinema?"
Traci Levine: That cunt? She made Julie take my table because she thought I hadn't bathed recently - like she should talk. Did you see the way she eats?
Andrew: Yeah. Did you check out her legs? Now I know why they call 'em calves.
Christian Markelli: I bet after sex, she smokes a ham.
[Lila appears]
Lila Montagne: Andrew, darling, a glass of that cuvée. And people, I do hope we're not speaking disparagingly about our clientele. Gossip is so ignoble, especially regarding those less fortunate.
Traci Levine: Less fortunate, that bitch?
Andrew: You know something. Come on, tell!
Lila Montagne: Please, no. I would never tell tales such as... well, with the frequency she does it, the poor child must think that binging and purging are aerobic exercises.
Christian Markelli: No way! She hardly looks bulimic!
Lila Montagne: Yes. Well, if I were a different sort, I'd suggest more of the purging and a little less of the binging. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Christian: [about them having sex] It's okay, this doesn't have to mean anything.
Elder Aaron Davis: Yes it does.
Christian: Shh... It could be just a little fun between friends.
Elder Aaron Davis: My first time could be just a little fun for you?
Christian: No don't get all...
Elder Aaron Davis: All what? Maybe you equate sex with a handshake and that's what? Like a badge? What do you want me to congratulate you?
Christian: Hey, don't you preach to me, okay? Who are you, some kid from the sticks? You come in here and think you can fucking judge me?
Elder Aaron Davis: Oh yeah, I'm just some doodah pudknocker from Pocatello. They ship us here from Dork Island.
Christian: What?
Elder Aaron Davis: I'm saying I know how retarded you think I am, okay? You found me out, all right? My worst secret. I'm humiliated now, so... your work is done here.
Christian: Wait, I don't think you're a dork. It's just your religion makes you act like one.
Elder Aaron Davis: Don't you believe in anything?
Christian: Yeah of course I do.
Elder Aaron Davis: Then tell me! You tell me one thing in your life, one thing without a shadow of a doubt that you really and truly believe.
Christian: I believe... I firmly believe that Ann Margret has never been given her due as an actress.
Elder Aaron Davis: Duh, for Tommy alone and did you see her when she played...
[catching himself]
Elder Aaron Davis: But is that anything you can build a life on? Look at yourself. You're so pretty and colorful on the outside, but inside you're nothing but fluff. You're like a walking, talking marshmallow Peep!
Christian: Hey... that not fair.
Elder Aaron Davis: When it's true, it doesn't matter. I can't believe what I was about to do, when there is nothing, Christian, nothing about you that's not skin-deep.
[Aaron leaves] (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Sister Gladys Davis: His name was Christian, wasn't it?
Elder Aaron Davis: What?
Sister Gladys Davis: Was Christian the one?
[a big smile appears on Aaron's face]
Sister Gladys Davis: What did he do to you?
Elder Aaron Davis: He... He loved me. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[final voiceover monologue]
Elder Aaron Davis: Sometimes it all still feels like a mass of dots. But more and more these days, I feel like we're all connected. And it's beautiful... and funny... and good. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
| Lila Montagne: A toast, an affirmation, a prayer of thanks. I want you to know that, wherever we find ourselves in this world, whatever our successes or failures, come this time of year, you will always have a place at my table. And a place in my heart. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[after receiving a "special favor" from Christian]
Quinn: You're not worried about Elizabeth coming in?
Christian Markelli: Elizabeth? My roommate's Julie.
Quinn: I'm here for a date with Elizabeth.
Christian Markelli: Elizabeth lives in 243D, as in "down the walk". This is 243B... as in "blow job". You're not Str8Curious from AOL?
Quinn: No.
Christian Markelli: [laughing] Not again. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
| Christian: You want revelations engraved in gold and angels trumpeting down from heaven. What if this is it instead? Me telling you I love you, right here in the snow? I think that is pretty miraculous. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Christian: God I hate the snow.
Elder Aaron Davis: What are you doing here?
Christian: I came after you. How could you just leave without saying anything.
Elder Aaron Davis: It's not my choice, I am being sent home in shame. And I'm probably going to be excommunicated.
Christian: For a kiss? I mean it was a very nice kiss, but come on. We didn't even get to use our tongues.
Elder Aaron Davis: You wouldn't understand.
Christian: I'm sorry, I'm not very good at this. See, I've never made a fool out of myself in front of anyone before. But I've never felt this way before about anyone in my entire life.
Elder Aaron Davis: What for just some guy you can't have. And next week you'll be on to your next conquest?
Christian: But what if you're not? Huh? What if everything in my entire pathetic life, which I happen to love, has led to this point? Right here, right now. What if you're the blinding light in the middle of the road that strikes me like that guy, the guy in...
Elder Aaron Davis: The Bible?
Christian: Yeah.
Elder Aaron Davis: Paul.
Christian: Yeah. And what if everything has changed like that... and lions lay down with lambs and colors mix with whites. What if you're the one that I've been waiting for my whole life and I let you go?
Elder Aaron Davis: You have no idea what I'd be giving up.
Christian: Damn it! What is wrong with you? You want revelations engraved in gold and angels trumpting down from heaven? But what if this is it instead? Me, telling you I love you, right here, in the snow? I think that is pretty miraculous. But if you don't... I'll go. I'll walk and you can pretend that this was just some coincidence. You can pretend there wasn't some reason that we met, and that you're sorry I ever walked into you life.
[Christian walk to the door, but it won't open]
Christian: God, I hate the snow.
[Aaron grabs him and gives him a passionate kiss] (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Elder Aaron Davis: [about him being gay] What if it's not something I've done? What if it's who I am?
Sister Gladys Davis: [slaps him] Don't say that! Don't you ever even think like that!
[they both start crying] (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
| Lila: [talking to her employee who are slacking off] I hear Disney is opening a Fantasia restaurant, in which the plates fly themselves to the table. Until then, what to do? (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Christian: If there's a problem, maybe I can come back later...
Elder Aaron Davis: Maybe I'm just homesick, okay?
Christian: Homesick? For Idaho?
Elder Aaron Davis: Okay, fine.
Christian: Sorry that came out wrong. You know, it's just... well, when I left home, zoom, like a rocket. But if... You've never been away from home before, have you?
Elder Aaron Davis: What? No - I've been away from home, just not for two whole years.
Christian: [in an English accent] 'Could be worse, could be rainin.'
Elder Aaron Davis: Hey, I know what that's from. That's from Young Frankenstein. 'Why thank you, doctor.'
Christian: So, two years, huh?
Elder Aaron Davis: Yeah, I know sounds crazy, doesn't it? We're not allowed to call or go home for holidays. They can't visit.
Christian: Wow. Where do I sign up?
Elder Aaron Davis: Hey, I happen to like my family... 'After all, a boy's best friend is his mother.'
Christian: [confused for awhile then gets it] Wait! Uh that from Psycho, right? 'She just goes a bit mad sometimes. We all go a bit mad sometimes.'
[Aaron laughs]
Christian: Hey, it can't be that bad, at least you have your friends here, right?
Elder Aaron Davis: Who? Ryder? Nah, I barely even know the guy. We just got assigned to each other a couple of weeks ago.
Christian: Oh. Well better you than me. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Andrew: Hey, there, beauty queen. Pay attention to the task at hand, okay? I don't have all day to go over this stuff.
Christian: Hey, I got up at 5:30 to be here on time - cut me some slack, will you?
Andrew: Look, quit bitching. It's the early bird that catches the worm.
Christian: Okay, now, there's an incentive. Who cares about a worm when you can get pizza till 3?
Andrew: Okay, here's the deal. I'm gonna take you around to see a few more things. Once we finish up your training, there'll be a half-hour of cutting and chopping, then we'll set you up with a route.
Christian: A route? On my first day?
Andrew: Come on, you're delivering food. It's what you do already - only this time you're driving. Think of yourself as a waiter on wheels.
Christian: Great. If I were in hot pants and roller skates, this would be the fulfillment of a dream.
Andrew: [looks Christian up and down] For all of us. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Elder Farron Davis: In the light of your abnormal and abominable state, and your refusal to see that you've been duped into a hogwash alternative lifestyle - I wish my shame was enough for the both of us, not to mention the shame you've brought to our church, our family, our ancestors...
Elder Aaron Davis: Wait a minute, our ancestors? Dad, your grandfather had a half a dozen wives. The same goes for every single person in this room. I've say we were the original definition of 'alternative lifestyle.'
Elder Farron Davis: Are you calling us hypocrites?
Elder Aaron Davis: No, we've gone way beyond hypocrisy, Dad; now we're just being mean. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Julie: We're shirts. You're skins.
Elder Aaron Davis: [pulls down the hem of his shirt blushing] Uh... no.
Christian: Fine, we'll be skins.
[both him and Juile take off their shirts]
Ryder: [looking at Juile's chest] Whoa!
[walks into the basketball pole]
Ryder: Ow! (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Elder Aaron Davis: [taking care of Christian's cut] This is going to sting a little. Funny, I'm not squeamish. In high school we went to this hospital. I was the only kid who wanted to watch the surgery. So they help me scrub down, and then they gave me a set of scrubs - you know, those green things? To put on and everything... got a Band-Aid?
[Christian hands him some]
Elder Aaron Davis: So anyway, I got to watch as they opened this guy's chest. And there it was, this human heart, you know? This human heart. You think about it beating and all, but it's more of a dance. And I couldn't get over that that's all that tethers us to this planet - this one fragile muscle. And how it's so tiny, really, in the big scheme of things. And when you think about all the things that can stop it... Well you just figure that there's got to be something else, something miraculous that keeps that valiant little muscle dancing. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Lila: [to some confused costomers about Aaron and Christian embrace] He's a great tipper.
[they nod their head in understandment] (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Elder Aaron Davis: Mom.
Sister Gladys Davis: Uh-huh.
Elder Aaron Davis: Mom!
Sister Gladys Davis: What, Aaron what?
Elder Aaron Davis: Nothing. I just wanted to see if you could bring yourself to look at me.
Sister Gladys Davis: I'm looking at you, Aaron. What am I supposed to be seeing?
Elder Aaron Davis: Nothing.
[he walks away] (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Keith Griffin: Just where do you think you're going with my goddamn flowers?
Christian: But they're...
Keith Griffin: We don't throw anything out that's not completely dead. Deal?
Christian: Deal.
Keith Griffin: And another thing, you got to quit coming over here and moping around. You're fucking depressing me.
Christian: I'm depressing you?
Keith Griffin: That what I'm saying, and if we've reached the point that you're dragging on my day, we've got a problem. Seriously, you got to do something. You have to make a move, find a way to get past this.
Christian: What, are you being the oracle guy again?
Keith Griffin: No, I'm just being a friend. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Lila: Chris? Sit down.
[he comes over and sits down, as she pours them each a brandy]
Lila: Drink that.
[he takes a small sip]
Lila: Toss it, that way it's medicinal.
[he knocks back the drink]
Lila: Good! It's vital for a man to have a couple of slugs in him before discussing heartache. I think Hemingway told me that.
Christian: You knew Ernest Hemingway?
Lila: Margaux, actually. But beauties don't always escape tragedy.
Christian: Oh, God, this is hell. I've done something... I'm guilty. And I'll burn for it.
Lila: Funny thing about guilt: There's nothing so bad that you can't add a little guilt to it and make it worse; and there's nothing so good you can't add guilt to it and make it better. Guilt distracts us from a greater truth: we have an inherent ability to heal. We seem intent on living through even the worst heartbreak.
Christian: How?
Lila: Hm. Practice. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Keith Griffin: Oh it's back.
Christian: Yeah, it's back. This may be your fuckin' day.
Keith Griffin: Or maybe I'm just not suffering enough yet. I didn't expect to see you again.
Christian: Oh come on, you don't think you're gonna go all 'Miss Cleo the Psychic' on my ass is going to scare me off that easy - now do you?
Keith Griffin: Maybe it was just dementia setting in. Sometimes I read people and I think I'm the oracle of Delphi.
Christian: Yeah? Well, sometimes I growl at people, but that doesn't make me Eartha Kitt. I'm just going to put this... right about... here.
Keith Griffin: It doesn't matter, I'm still not hungry.
Christian: I don't remember asking you if you were. I just deliver this stuff, remember? But my friend Andrew made this, and he doesn't even cook for his boyfriends. So the least you could do is try to be polite, and eat it.
Keith Griffin: I don't have to pretend to be polite. I think I've... I've earned that right.
Christian: Oh yes, that's right; you're dying, you're bitter, blah, blah, blah... Fortunately, I'm shallow, so I'm impervious to that, now eat it.
Keith Griffin: Impervious? Bet you don't even know how to spell that.
Christian: Sure I do, it's spelled: Bite me. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Christian Markelli: [after having sex] Wow. How long were we at it?
Elder Aaron Davis: [retrieves his pocket watch and looks at the time] Two and a half hours. That's okay, right?
Christian Markelli: Okay? That's amazing. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Elder Aaron Davis: Do you ever read the Sunday comics?
Lila: [confused] I beg your pardon?
[changes her mind]
Lila: Yes, of course the Sunday comics.
Elder Aaron Davis: Well, when I was a little kid, I use to put my nose right up to them. And I was just amazed because it looked like this mass of dots, and none of it made sense until I pulled back. Life looks like that mass of dots to me sometimes. None of it makes any sense, but I like to think that, from God's perspective, life, everything - even this - make sense. It's not just dots. Instead we're all connected, and it's beautiful and funny and good. This close we can't expect it to make sense, not right now. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
| Christian: I thought I'd rather die than be gay. I got a pretty good idea of what dying felt like but lying there in the arms of that man, I thought if this is what being gay feels like... bring it on. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
[first lines]
Elder Aaron Davis: When I first came to Los Angeles, It look like just this mass of dots... all jumbled and disconnected. It was pretty disorienting. (Movie: Latter Days [2003]) | |
Sherif Ali: There is the railway. And that is the desert. From here until we reach the other side, no water but what we carry with us. For the camels, no water at all. If the camels die, we die. And in twenty days they will start to die.
T.E. Lawrence: There's no time to waste, then, is there? (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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! (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
[asked by reporter if he knew Lawrence]
Jackson Bentley: Yes, it was my privilege to know him and to make him known to the world. He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior.
[after reporter leaves]
Jackson Bentley: He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
[Arabs are looting a train after blowing it up]
Sherif Ali: It is their payment, Colonel.
Colonel Brighton: Payment?
Sherif Ali: Truly, are not British soldiers paid?
Colonel Brighton: They don't go home when they've been paid!
Sherif Ali: They are not free to! (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Jackson Bentley: [on his interest in Lawrence and the Arab Revolt] I'm looking for a hero.
Prince Feisal: Indeed, you do not seem a romantic man.
Jackson Bentley: Oh, no! But certain influential men back home believe the time has come for America to lend her weight to the patriotic struggle against Germany... and Turkey. Now, I've been sent to find material that makes this war seem more...
Prince Feisal: Enjoyable?
Jackson Bentley: Oh, hardly THAT, sir. But to show it in its more... adventurous aspects.
Prince Feisal: You are looking for a figure that will draw your country towards war?
Jackson Bentley: All right, yes.
Prince Feisal: Lawrence is your man.
General Allenby: What about your Arab friends? What about them?
T.E. Lawrence: I have no Arab friends. I don't want Arab friends !
General Allenby: What in Hell do you want, Lawrence?
T.E. Lawrence: I told you! I just want my ration of common humanity.
Mr. Dryden: Lawrence!
[Lawrence turns away from Allenby to face Dryden]
Mr. Dryden: . Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, Sir.
General Allenby: [subdued] Quite all right. Thank you, Mr Dryden. Look, why don't we, er... There's blood on your back. Do you want a Doctor ? (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
General Murray: [on the Arab Revolt] It's a storm in a tea cup, Mr. Dryden - a sideshow. If you want my own opinion, this whole theater of operations is a sideshow! The real war's not being fought against the Turks, but the Germans. And not here, but on the Western front in the trenches! Your Bedouin Army - or whatever it calls itself - would be a sideshow OF a sideshow!
Mr. Dryden: Big things have small beginnings, sir.
General Murray: Does the Arab Bureau want a "big thing" in Arabia? If we get them to rise against the Turks, does the Bureau think they'll sit down quietly under us when this war's over?
Mr. Dryden: The Arab Bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war.
General Murray: Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden! (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
General Allenby: [the British army staff is having a field briefing] Very well, gentlemen. The cavalry's gone through Mazril and Deraa. Very good, by the way, very good indeed. Now your turn.
Artilery general, field briefing: Well, sir, if the enemy's retreating in any kind of order - which we'd better assume...
General Allenby: Certainly.
Artilery general, field briefing: ...Then they can't be further than this Mallud place. In which case I can have them within range by... 0900 hours tomorrow?
General Allenby: Splendid! Phillip.
Infantry general, field briefing: Well, these
[referring to British soldiers marching in the background]
Infantry general, field briefing: are the last of the infantry supports coming up now, sir. But Mallud... could have the fusilliers there by... Wednesday, sir?
General Allenby: That'll do for now. The guns are what matter! Any questions?
Cavalry general, field briefing: This Arab army on the right, sir - what's it consist of?
Colonel Brighton: Irregular cavalry, sir. About two thousand.
Cavalry general, field briefing: Where are they now?
Colonel Brighton: Can only know that by being with them, sir.
General Allenby: Then get with them, Harry! I want to know.
Colonel Brighton: Yes, sir.
General Allenby: Pound them, Charley -
[strikes blackboard with his fist]
General Allenby: POUND THEM! (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| 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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| Prince Feisal: Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
[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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| Prince Feisal: With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| 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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
T.E. Lawrence: It's my manner, sir.
General Murray: Your manner?
T.E. Lawrence: Yes. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't really. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| Prince Feisal: No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| Prince Feisal: Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. My father, Mr Lawrence, not the English. But my father is old and I... I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba. However, before the gardens must come the fighting. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| 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! (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| Sherif Ali: Does it surprise you, Mr Bentley? Surely, you know the Arabs are a barbarous people. Barbarous and cruel. Who but they! Who but they! (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| T.E. Lawrence: No, they're still there, but they've no boots. Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners; the entire garrison. No, that's not true. We killed some; too many really. I'll manage it better next time. There's been a lot of killing, one way or another. Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Prince Feisal: But you know, Lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village?
T.E. Lawrence: Yes, you were great.
Prince Feisal: Nine centuries ago.
T.E. Lawrence: Time to be great again, my lord. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Prince Feisal: Well, General, I will leave you. Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make upon my people and their weakness, and the need to keep them weak in the British interest... and the French interest too, of course. We must not forget the French now...
General Allenby: [indignantly] I've told you, sir, no such treaty exists.
Prince Feisal: Yes, General, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly. I know this treaty does exist.
T.E. Lawrence: Treaty, sir?
Prince Feisal: He does it better than you, General. But then, of course, he is almost an Arab. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Prince Feisal: My friend Lawrence, if I may call him that. "My friend Lawrence". How many men will claim the right to use that phrase? How proudly! He longs for the greenness of his native land. He pines for the Gothic cottages of Surrey, is it not? Already in imagination, he catches trout and engages in all the activities of the English gentleman.
General Allenby: That's me you're describing, sir, not Colonel Lawrence. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Prince Feisal: You, I suspect, are chief architect of this compromise. What do you think?
Mr. Dryden: Me, your Highness? On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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? (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
General Allenby: I've got orders to obey, thank God. Not like that poor devil. He's riding the whirlwind.
Mr. Dryden: Let's hope we're not. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| 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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Turkish Bey: I have been stationed in Dara for three and a half years. If I were posted to the dark side of the moon I could not be more isolated. You don't have the slightest idea what I'm talking about, do you?
T.E. Lawrence: No, effendi.
Turkish Bey: Do you? No. That would be too... lucky. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
[regarding the bullet wound on Lawrence's arm]
Turkish Bey: Where did you get this wound?
T.E. Lawrence: That is old, effendi.
Turkish Bey: No, it is recent. You are a deserter. But from which army? Not that it matters at all. A man can't always be in uniform. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Bartender: [after Lawrence enters with a dirty Bedouin] This is a bar for British officers!
T.E. Lawrence: That's all right. We're not particular. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| T.E. Lawrence: A thousand Arabs means a thousand knives, delivered anywhere day or night. It means a thousand camels. That means a thousand packs of high explosives and a thousand crack rifles. We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round, and smash his railways. And while he's mending them, I'll smash them somewhere else. In thirteen weeks, I can have Arabia in chaos. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
General Allenby: I believe your name will be a household word when you'll have to go to the War Museum to find who Allenby was. You're the most extraordinary man I've ever met!
T.E. Lawrence: Leave me alone!
General Allenby: What?
T.E. Lawrence: Leave me alone!
General Allenby: Well, that's a feeble thing to say.
T.E. Lawrence: I know I'm not ordinary.
General Allenby: That's not what I'm saying...
T.E. Lawrence: All right! I'm extraordinary! What of it? (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
Jackson Bentley: Is Major Lawrence in there? Is he in trouble?
Mr. Dryden: I would suspect so. We all have troubles. Life is a vale of troubles. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| 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. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
General Allenby: I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe!
T.E. Lawrence: We should do very well, then, shouldn't we? (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
| Mr. Dryden: You've been telling half truths.One who tells lies hides the truth but when telling half truths,you've forgotten where you've put it. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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 gave you a face, he gave you a fool's face. (Movie: Lawrence of Arabia [1962]) | |
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