Quotes from Edgar Rice Burroughs

I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do.

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

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

my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.

And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.

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

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

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.

It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.

but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did.

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.

The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.

Jane saw the little note and ignored it, for she was very angry and hurt and mortified, but—she was a woman, and so eventually she picked it up and read it. MY

All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant.

Captain Billings, he drawled finally, if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass.

Fear is a relative term and so I can only measure my feelings at that time by what I had experienced in previous positions of danger and by those that I have passed through since; but I can say without shame that if the sensations I endured during the next few minutes were fear, then may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment.

But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time—I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.

She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.