Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upo...

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and...

Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons o...

And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least ...

Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, an...

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

...smiles are the foundation of beauty.

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and asha...

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good lite...

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangib...

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built hous...

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes d...

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was th...

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with t...

I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak...

So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan

But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," r...

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better tha...

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fight...

As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters ...

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man wh...

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I mus...

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same p...

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of ...

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander,...

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are so...

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

I do not understand exactly what you mean by fear," said Tarzan. "Like lions, fear is a different th...

Teach me to speak the language of men.

What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm."Men have died for les...

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast whic...

You didn't find any trace of her?" asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. "None. In the jungle, I ...

I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor sh...

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.