Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

About Edgar Rice Burroughs:

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 have us continue to believe as they wished us to belie...

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... but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

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Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.

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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 believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon...

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His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and s...

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Teach me to speak the language of men.

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

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

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Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!

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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 thing has power to harm me as much as I have to harm hi...

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

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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 victory.

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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.

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

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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.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 the slaying of beasts in the chase and defense. We do n...

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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.

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I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took ...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameEdgar Rice Burroughs
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornSeptember 1, 1875
  • DiedMarch 19, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksBarsoom