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


--Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia

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!


--Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia

Auda abu Tayi: Thine mother mated with a scorpion.


--Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia

Auda abu Tayi: What troubles 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.


--Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia

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.


--Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia

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.


--Anthony Quinn (as Auda Abu Tayi) in Lawrence of Arabia