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

- 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…

- 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…

- Gertrude Bell

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

- Gertrude Bell

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

- Gertrude Bell

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

- 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 …

- Gertrude Bell