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 Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.
... 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… - Gertrude Bell
... 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…
- Gertrude Bell
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 … - Gertrude Bell
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 …
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals. - Gertrude Bell
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.
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… - Gertrude Bell
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…
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… - Gertrude Bell
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…
There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion. - Gertrude Bell
There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.
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 … - Gertrude Bell
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. - Gertrude Bell
I will have no locked cupboards in my life.
It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders. - Gertrude Bell
It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.
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