Edgar Rice Burroughs quotes - page 4

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, widely renowned for creating the iconic characters Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. His adventure stories captured the imagination of readers around the world and influenced popular culture. He became one of the most successful and influential science fiction and adventure writers of the 20th century. Here are 87 of his quotes:

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

As Tarzan finished reading, Clayton entered and came toward him with extended hand. Here was the man who had Tarzan's title, and Tarzan's estates, and was going to marry the woman whom Tarzan loved - the woman who loved Tarzan. A single word from Tarzan would make a great difference in this man's life. It would take away his title and his lands and his castles, and - it would take them away from Jane Porter also. "I say, old man," cried Clayton, "I haven't had a chance to thank you for all you've done for us. It seems as though you had your hands full saving our lives in Africa and here. "I'm awfully glad you came on here. We must get better acquainted. I often thought about you, you know, and the remarkable circumstances of your environment. "If it's any of my business, how the devil did you ever get into that bally jungle?"

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

As Tarzan finished reading, Clayton entered and came toward him with extended hand. Here was the man who had Tarzan's title, and Tarzan's estates, and was going to marry the woman whom Tarzan loved - the woman who loved Tarzan. A single word from Tarzan would make a great difference in this man's life. It would take away his title and his lands and his castles, and - it would take them away from Jane Porter also. "I say, old man," cried Clayton, "I haven't had a chance to thank you for all you've done for us. It seems as though you had your hands full saving our lives in Africa and here. "I'm awfully glad you came on here. We must get better acquainted. I often thought about you, you know, and the remarkable circumstances of your environment. "If it's any of my business, how the devil did you ever get into that bally jungle?" "I was born there," said Tarzan, quietly. "My mother was an Ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it. I never knew who my father was."

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Like all his kind and all other bullies, von Schoenvorts was a coward at heart.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I was sure that Lys was dead. I wanted myself to die, and yet I clung to life-useless and hopeless and harrowing a thing as it had become. I clung to life because some ancient, reptilian forbear had clung to life and transmitted to me through the ages the most powerful motive that guided his minute brain-the motive of self-preservation.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She was quite the most wonderful animal that I have ever looked upon, and what few of her charms her apparel hid, it quite effectively succeeded in accentuating.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Thus Bradley reasoned-thus most of us reason; not by what might be possible; but by what has fallen within the range of our experience.

Edgar Rice Burroughs