Quotes from Edgar Rice Burroughs

I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people.

So glorious does love transfigure its object~Tarzan

I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga.

One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it

And then again, had I declared myself I should have robbed the woman I love of the wealth and position that her marriage to Clayton will now insure to her. I could not have done that—could I, Paul?

A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell her the thing that I must tell her.

There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here

the bridesmaid's hand in his, Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding. The

P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.

P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin

P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions

Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward the altar. The hand of La had paused at the first noise of interruption. When she saw who the author of it was she went white. She had never been able to fathom the secret of the strange white man's escape from the dungeon in which she had locked him.

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.

In Hastor I have paid a good price to see one of these creatures and now I found myself in a position where I should very gladly pay a good deal more not to see one, but from the noise he was making in the shaft beneath me it appeared to me that he was determined that I should have a free show and he a free meal.

John! cried Lady Greystoke, running toward him, how could I have been mistaken? I- but the rest of the sentence was lost as Tarzan of the Apes sprang into the room and taking his mate in his arms covered her lips with kisses.

The lion was quite close to him now—but a few paces intervened—he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.

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

Your scabby heart hath revealed its sores to all the world.

It was on the morning of the second day that the first link was forged in what was destined to form a chain of circumstances ending in a life for one then unborn such as has never been paralleled in the history of man.

sentimentalists have words: love, loyalty, friendship, enmity, jealousy, hate, a thousand others; a waste of words – one word defines them all: self-interest.

whoever would offer her injury or insult in the future must figure on making a full accounting to me. I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindliness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight.

It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian.

Why, I never did believe it

To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.