Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it.… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
“There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated in me," it tolled. "Nor was there light, nor motion, nor any… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
“That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.” — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
“Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
“When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement. I've earned everything I've won, with… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
“There was no explaining this thing, but it was so. he was on Xapur, and that fantastic heap of towering masonry was on Xapur,… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
“Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine— You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine. The… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share
