“Club Secretary: "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"T.E. Lawrence: "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.”

“- "I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!"- "Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers"--------------------------------------"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”

“He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.”

“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”

“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.(T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )”

“If you are building an army I should be your number one general,” –Lawrence Ottoise.”