Auda abu Tayi Quotes in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Auda abu Tayi: It is Auda of the Howitat who speaks.

Sherif Ali: It is Ali of the Harith who answers.

Auda abu Tayi: Harith! Ali, does your father still steal?

Sherif Ali: No. Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards?

Auda abu Tayi: No, there is no resemblance. Alas, you resemble your father.

Sherif Ali: Auda flatters me.

Auda abu Tayi: You're easily flattered. I knew your father well.

Sherif Ali: Did you know your own?

Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve?

Howeitat tribesmen: NO!

Auda abu Tayi: Does Auda abu Tayi serve?

Howeitat tribesmen: NO!

Auda abu Tayi: [to Lawrence] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people!

T.E. Lawrence: My friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for money...

Auda abu Tayi: No.

T.E. Lawrence: ...for Feisal...

Auda abu Tayi: No!

T.E. Lawrence: ...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come... because it is his pleasure.

[pause]

Auda abu Tayi: Thy mother mated with a scorpion.

Auda abu Tayi: [as Lawrence sets out across the desert with Daoud and Faraj] You will cross Sinai?

T.E. Lawrence: Moses did!

Auda abu Tayi: And you will take the children?

T.E. Lawrence: Moses did!

Auda abu Tayi: Moses was a prophet and beloved of God!

T.E. Lawrence: We do not work this thing for Feisal.

Auda abu Tayi: No? For the English, then?

T.E. Lawrence: For the Arabs.

Auda abu Tayi: The Arabs? The Howitat, Ajili, Rala, Beni Saha; these I know, I have even heard of the Harif, but the Arabs? What tribe is that?

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 gave you a face, he gave you a fool's face.

T.E. Lawrence: The Law says the man must die... If he dies, would that content the Howitat?

Auda abu Tayi: Yes.

T.E. Lawrence: Sherif Ali. If none of lord Auda's men harms any of yours, will that content the Harith?

Sherif Ali: Yes.

T.E. Lawrence: Then I will execute the Law. I have no tribe and no one is offended.

Auda abu Tayi: [his last words, to Ali] Being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith!

Auda abu Tayi: What ails the Englishman?

Sherif Ali: The one he killed is the one he brought out of the Nafud.

Auda abu Tayi: It was written then. Better to have left him there.

Auda abu Tayi: Thine mother mated with a scorpion.

Auda abu Tayi: [Auda starts the attack on Aqaba with these words] Make God your agent!... Aqaba!