Feisal Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men – courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men – mistrust and caution. It must be so.
2nd most-quoted character in Lawrence of Arabia (1962): in 8 of its 28 quotes
Most scenes with: Bentley (4)
I think you are another of these desert-loving English: Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum. No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees, there is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing.
More lines from Feisal
2 quotes Feisal Feisal "In this country, Mr. Bentley, the man who gives victory in battle is prized beyond every other man..."
Scenes with Feisal
5 scenes Feisal In the Arab city of Cordova, there were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village...
Yes, you were great.
Feisal ...nine centuries ago...
Time to be great again, my Lord.
Feisal ...which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. My father, Mr. Lawrence, not the English. Now my father is old. And I, I long for the vanished gardens of Cordova. However, before the gardens must come fighting.
Sherif Ali [Ali shoots Tafas dead while riding his camel. He stops his camel and jumps down to examine Tafas' body]
He is dead.
Yes... why?
Sherif Ali This is my well. [mentioning the well Lawrence and Tafas are resting at]
I have drunk from it.
Sherif Ali You are welcome.
He was my friend.
Sherif Ali That? [mentioning Tafas]
Yes, that.
Sherif Ali [Ali walks towards Lawrence and grabs Tafas' revolver lying on the sand]
Yours?
No, his.
Sherif Ali [Ali tucks the revolver into his waist and walks towards the well]
His? [mentioning the tin cup near the well]
Mine.
Sherif Ali Then I will use it. [pulls some water out of well]
Sherif Ali ... your friend... was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem.
I know.
Sherif Ali [Ali salutes Lawrence and drinks his water]
I am Ali ibn el Kharish.
I have heard of you.
Sherif Ali So... What was a Hazimi doing here?
He was taking me to help Prince Feisal.
Sherif Ali You've been sent from Cairo?
Yes.
Sherif Ali I have been in Cairo for my schooling. I can both read and write... my Lord Feisal already has an Englishman.
Yes.
Sherif Ali What is your name?
My name is for my friend. [Ali walks away] None of my friends is a murderer.
Sherif Ali You are angry, English. [Ali climbs his camel] He was nothing. The well is everything... The Hazimi may not drink at our wells. He knew that... Salaam.
Watch out for Allenby. He's a slim customer.
Feisal Excuse me?
A clever man.
Feisal 'Slim customer.' It's very good. I will certainly watch out for him. You are being very sympathetic, Mr. Bentley.
Your Highness. We Americans were once a colonial people, and we naturally feel sympathetic to any people anywhere who are struggling for their freedom.
Feisal Very gratifying.
Also, my interests are the same as yours. You want your story told. I badly want a story to tell.
Feisal Since starting this campaign four months ago, we have lost 37 wounded, 156 dead. Do you remark at this proportion between our dead and wounded?
Yeah. Four times as many.
Feisal That's because those too badly wounded to bring away we ourselves kill. We leave no wounded for the Turks.
You mean...
Feisal I mean we leave no wounded for the Turks. In their eyes, we are not soldiers, but rebels. And rebels, wounded or whole, are not protected by the Geneva Code and are treated harshly.
How harshly?
Feisal More harshly than I hope you can imagine.
I heard in Cairo that Major Lawrence has a horror of bloodshed.
Feisal That is exactly so. With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
It's very simple, sir. I'm looking for a hero...certain influential men back home believe that the time has come for America to lend her weight to the patriotic struggle against Germany, uh, and Turkey. Now I've been sent to find material which will show our people that this war is, uh...
Feisal Enjoyable?
Oh, hardly that, sir. But to show them its more adventurous aspects.
Feisal And you are looking for a figure who will draw your country towards war.
All right. Yes.
Feisal Lawrence is your man.
