Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I do not understand exactly what you mean by fear," said Tarzan. "Like lions, fear is a different thing in different men, but to me the only pleasure in the hunt is the knowledge that the hunted th...”

“And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm u...”

“I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah...”

“So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan”

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

“I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak, men fight with men when they meet - men of different races - but their weapons are first for th...”

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

“What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm."Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him."I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave...”

“...smiles are the foundation of beauty.”

“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to h...”

“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...”

“Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.”

“They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.”

“Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.”

“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 ...”