- Yes, you were great.
- Nine centuries ago.
- Time to be great again, my lord.

— Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness), T. E. Lawrence (Toole), (Peter O’Toole)

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

You can hear this line at 00:51:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

[...]

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