Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Anthony Quayle: Colonel Brighton

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Quotes 

• Colonel Brighton : Are you badly hurt?

  T.E. Lawrence : I'm not hurt at all. Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet.

• Colonel Brighton : Look, sir, we can't just do nothing.

  General Allenby : Why not? It's usually best.

• Auda abu Tayi : When Lawrence finds what he's looking for, he will go home. When you find what you are looking for, you will go home.

  Colonel Brighton : I will not.

  Auda abu Tayi : Then you are a fool. Be thankful that when God made you a fool, He gave you a fool's face.

• [first lines] 

  Colonel Brighton : He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew.

  Vicar at St. Paul's : Did you know him well?

  Colonel Brighton : I knew him.

  Vicar at St. Paul's : Well, nil nisi bonum. But did he really deserve a place in here?

• T.E. Lawrence : I'm to "assess the situation".

  Colonel Brighton : Hmph! Well that won't be too difficult. The situation's bloody awful.

• [Arabs are looting a train after blowing it up] 

  Sherif Ali : It is their payment, Colonel.

  Colonel Brighton : Payment?

  Sherif Ali : Truly, are not British soldiers paid?

  Colonel Brighton : They don't go home when they've been paid!

  Sherif Ali : They are not free to!

• Colonel Brighton : Damn it, Lawrence! Who do you take your orders from?

• General Allenby : [the British army staff is having a field briefing]  Very well, gentlemen. The cavalry's gone through Mazril and Deraa. Very good, by the way, very good indeed. Now your turn.

  Artilery general, field briefing : Well, sir, if the enemy's retreating in any kind of order - which we'd better assume...

  General Allenby : Certainly.

  Artilery general, field briefing : ...Then they can't be further than this Mallud place. In which case I can have them within range by... 0900 hours tomorrow?

  General Allenby : Splendid! Phillip.

  Infantry general, field briefing : Well, these

  [referring to British soldiers marching in the background] 

  Infantry general, field briefing : are the last of the infantry supports coming up now, sir. But Mallud... could have the fusilliers there by... Wednesday, sir?

  General Allenby : That'll do for now. The guns are what matter! Any questions?

  Cavalry general, field briefing : This Arab army on the right, sir - what's it consist of?

  Colonel Brighton : Irregular cavalry, sir. About two thousand.

  Cavalry general, field briefing : Where are they now?

  Colonel Brighton : Can only know that by being with them, sir.

  General Allenby : Then get with them, Harry! I want to know.

  Colonel Brighton : Yes, sir.

  General Allenby : Pound them, Charley -

  [strikes blackboard with his fist] 

  General Allenby : POUND THEM!

• Colonel Brighton : I've been waiting for you.

  T.E. Lawrence : Did you know I was coming?

  Colonel Brighton : I knew someone was coming. I mean Feisal told me.

  T.E. Lawrence : How did he know?

  Colonel Brighton : Not much happens within 50 miles of Feisal that Feisal doesn't know. I'll give him that... no escort?

  T.E. Lawrence : My guide was killed at the Masturah well.

  Colonel Brighton : Turks?

  T.E. Lawrence : No, an Arab.

  Colonel Brighton : Bloody savages.

  [They both ride away] 

• Colonel Brighton : Major Lawrence will campaign this winter, but you've got what you wanted so you're going home. Is that it?

  Auda abu Tayi : Of course. When Orens has got what he wants, he will go home. When you have got what you want, you will go home.

  Colonel Brighton : Oh no I shan't Auda.

  Auda abu Tayi : Then you are a fool.

  Colonel Brighton : Maybe. I am not a deserter.

  Auda abu Tayi : Give thanks to God, Brighton, that when He made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face.

  Colonel Brighton : You are an impudent rascal.

  Auda abu Tayi : I must go, Orens, before I soil myself with a fool's blood.

  Colonel Brighton : It's like talking to a brick wall.

• Colonel Brighton : They think he's a kind of prophet.

  General Allenby : They do or he does?