Quotes from Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

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

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

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine.

Clothes therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

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

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.