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Or do you know, in the Arab city of Cordoba were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village.

10 seconds sound clip from the Lawrence of Arabia movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:50:57 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia.

- Then you must deny it to them.

- You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England?

- To England and to other things.

- To England and Arabia both? And is that possible?

- 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. And no man needs nothing.

- Or is it that you think we are something you can play with, because we are a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel?

- Or do you know, in the Arab city of Cordoba were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village.

- Yes, you were great.

- Nine centuries ago.

- Time to be great again, my lord.

- Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. My father, not the English.

- But my father is old... and I... I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba.

- However, before the gardens must come the fighting.

- To be great again, it seems that we need the English, or... What no man can provide... We need a miracle.

[...]

Lawrence of Arabia Sound Clip

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Famous quotes from Lawrence of Arabia (1962), featuring short sound clips of the best lines.

Actors: Peter O’Toole (T. E. Lawrence), Alec Guinness (Prince Faisal), Anthony Quinn (Auda abu Tayi), Jack Hawkins (General Allenby), Omar Sharif (Sherif Ali), Claude Rains (Mr. Dryden), Arthur Kennedy (Jackson Bentley)

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