Colonel Brighton(费萨尔的英国军事顾问,上校军衔): I want a decision, sir.
Faisal: You want me to fall back on Yenbo.
Colonel Brighton: Well, you’re not doing much good here, sir. I’m sorry to rub it in, sir, but we can’t suppy you here.
Faisal: You could suppy us through Aqaba!
Colonel Brighton: Aqaba? If you can get ahold of Aqaba, we can supply you. But you can’t!
Faisal: You could.
Colonel Brighton: You mean, the navy? The Turks have 12 inch guns at Aqaba, sir. Can you imagine what that means?
Faisal: Yes, I can imagine…
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Colonel Brighton: Upon my word, sir, you’re ungrateful. Fall back on Yenbo and we will give you equipment. Give you arms, advice, traning, everything.
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Faisal: Yes, lieutenant? What do you think about Yenbo?
Lawrence: I think it is far from Damascus.
Colonel Brighton: We’ll have you in Damascus, sir. Never fear.
Faisal: Have you been in Damascus, Mr. Lawrence?
Lawrence: Yes, my lord.
Faisal: It is beautiful. Is it not?
Lawrence: Very.
Colonel Brighton: That will do! Dreaming won’t get you in Damascus, but discipline will. Look, Great Britain is a small country, much smaller than yours. Small population compared with some. It is small, but it’s great. And why?
Ali: Because it has guns.
Colonel Brighton: Because it has discipine!
Faisal: Because it has a navy, because of this, the English go where they please and strike where they please. This makes them great.
Lawrence: Right.
Colonel Brighton: Mr. Lawrence, that will do! Lawrence is not your military adviser.
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Lawrence: My lord, I think… I think your book is right. The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped. On this ocean, the Bedu go where they please and strike where they please. This is the way the Bedu has always fought. You’re famed through the world for fighting this way. And this is the way you should fight now.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.