Quotes from Edgar Rice Burroughs

As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.

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

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

Ah, John, I wish that I might be a man with a man's philosophy, but I am but a woman, seeing with my heart rather than my head, and all that I can see is too horrible, too unthinkable to put into words.

But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our

Are you sure," he asked the clerk, "that my replies haven't been sidetracked somewhere? I have seen people taking letters away from here all day, and that bird there just walked off with a fistful." The clerk grinned. "What you advertising for?" he asked. "A position," replied Jimmy. "That's the answer," explained the clerk. "That fellow there was advertising for help.

As he passed through the winding corridors and the subterranean apartments, Tarzan saw nothing of the hyenas. They will return, he said to himself. In the crater between the towering walls Bukawai, cold with terror, trembled, trembled as with ague. They will return! he cried, his voice rising to a fright-filled shriek. And they did.

Magnifique! ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath.

To say that Nikolas Rokoff is a devil would be to place a wanton affront upon his satanic majesty.

To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it. I could

love denied a childish heart that yearns for love. Little

There was no need for words—at least none that I could imagine, unless Perry desired to pray. And I was quite sure that he would

For a naked man to drag a shrieking, clawing man-eater forth from a window by the tail to save a strange white girl, was indeed the last word in heroism.

Formerly they had dwelt in the Belgian Congo until the cruelties of their heartless oppressors had driven them to seek the safety of unexplored solitudes beyond the boundaries of Leopold's domain.

Give them what you wish of it, what you think will not harm them, but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you.

We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.

That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our finite minds cannot grasp that which may not exist in accordance with the conditions which obtain about us upon the outside of the insignificant grain of dust which wends its tiny way among the bowlders of the universe—the speck of moist dirt we so proudly call the World.

Leave to a Thark his head and one hand and he may yet conquer.

Come, then, cried Tarzan, and prove your loyalty. It were better to die now than to live in slavery forever.

Perry used to say that if a fellow was one-tenth as remarkable as his wife or mother thought him, he would have the world by the tail with a down-hill drag.

It is probable, however, that to this fact I owe my life and the remarkable experiences and adventures which befell me during the following ten years.

Always, everywhere, man is man, nor has he altered greatly beneath his veneer since he scurried into a hole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million years ago.

The girls head went high. There could be but one suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton, she said icily, and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it. She turned quickly and entered the cabin.