Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we w...”

“But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to bel...”

“What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes do - leave one of your kind in the jungle to die if it suited your whim to go elsewhere.If you are...”

“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.”

“As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.”

“Teach me to speak the language of men.”

“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 ...”

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

“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.”

“p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their vi...”

“P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.”

“You didn't find any trace of her?" asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. "None. In the jungle, I could have found her; but here -here, in civilization, a man cannot even find himself.”

“Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.”

“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.”

“I should at least die as I had livedfighting.”

“Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.”

“It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.”