To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!.

... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or h….

Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman and my tenets don't pe….

We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, j….

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they..

I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and ….

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion..

All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stre….

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals..

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders..

The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to ….

I will have no locked cupboards in my life..