176 Quotes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I am like my father – witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths – the trees, the flowers, the sward – all must have read the love that has filled my heart since first my eyes were made new by imaging your perfect face and form; so how could you alone have been blind to it?

She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.

Beast?” Jane murmured. “Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.

Jane saw the little note and ignored it, for she was very angry and hurt and mortified, but – she was a woman, and so eventually she picked it up and read it. MY.

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, “Tarzan and the Lost Empire”, there are 31 books on my list.

And then again, had I declared myself I should have robbed the woman I love of the wealth and position that her marriage to Clayton will now insure to her. I could not have done that – could I, Paul?

In Hastor I have paid a good price to see one of these creatures and now I found myself in a position where I should very gladly pay a good deal more not to see one, but from the noise he was making in the shaft beneath me it appeared to me that he was determined that I should have a free show and he a free meal.

We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.