Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

I had had to discard my rifle

I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect...

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

Termagant,

Nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.

Monuments of historic achievement

[The little black boy] had seen Tarzan bring down a buck, just as Numa, the lion, might have done... Tibo had shuddered at the sight, but he had thrilled, too, and for the first time there entered his...

Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul, concluded Tarzan,

At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for all they most crave and never can attain. Let us pity them, my chieftain, for...

Why does The Sheik, my father, not love me, too?

Dear old Woola, she said; no love could be deeper than yours, yet it never offends. Would that men might pattern themselves after you!

We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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,

His great bulk swaying to and fro as he threw his weight first upon one side and then upon the other, Tantor the elephant lolled in the shade of the father of forests. Almost omnipotent, he, in the re...

THE JOHN CARTER OF MARS COLLECTION ..................

Tarzan of the Apes was hungry, and here was meat; meat of the kill, which jungle ethics permitted him to eat. How may we judge him, by what standards, this ape-man with the heart and head and body of...

The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the thoat's broad back.

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

I am like my father—witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths—the trees, the flowers, the sward—all must have read the love that...