- Who told you that?
- I have long ears.
- And a long tongue between them.
— Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn), T. E. Lawrence (Toole), (Peter O’Toole)
8 seconds sound clip from the Lawrence of Arabia movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:38:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- And yet now it seems Auda has grown old. And lost his taste for fighting.
- It is well you say it in my tent, thou old tulip.
- Yet this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy.
- Now, I will tell you what they pay me, and you will tell me if this is a servant's wages.
- They pay me, month by month, 100 golden guineas.
- 150.
- And a long tongue between them.
- 100, 150, what matters? It's a trifle. A trifle which they take from a great box they have.
- Friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba.
- No.
- No.
- No.
- Nor to drive away the Turks.
[...]