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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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Death, only, renders hope futile.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 a man, you will return to protect your kind. You wi...

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 is the best literature.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author Bio

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