Robert E. Howard

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

— Robert E. Howard

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

— Robert E. Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

— Robert E. Howard

No man can be convinced when he will not.

— Robert E. Howard

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

— Robert E. Howard

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

— Robert E. Howard

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

— Robert E. Howard

“I am a landless man...I come out of the sunset and into the sunrise I go, wherever the Lord doth guide my…

— Robert E. Howard

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go…

— Robert E. Howard

“It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.”

— Robert E. Howard

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

— Robert E. Howard

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

— Robert E. Howard

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

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard

“You can not escape me!" he roared. "Lead me into a trap and I'll pile the heads of your kinsmen at your…

— Robert E. Howard

“Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as…

— Robert E. Howard

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of…

— Robert E. Howard

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the…

— Robert E. Howard

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

Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate,…

— Robert E. Howard

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

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of…

— Robert E. Howard

“The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom; A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on winds of doom. In heaps…

— Robert E. Howard

“Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine— You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of…

— Robert E. Howard

“Down the mountain slopes, like a whirl of shining dust blown before the wind, a crimson, conoid cloud came dancing. Khemsa's dark…

— Robert E. Howard

One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It…

— Robert E. Howard

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

The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter.…

— Robert E. Howard

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

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

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

— Robert E. Howard

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

— Robert E. Howard

“A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.”

— Robert E. Howard

I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat -- and frequently drop the…

— Robert E. Howard

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

— Robert E. Howard

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

— Robert E. Howard

“A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.”

— Robert E. Howard

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

— Robert E. Howard

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

— Robert E. Howard

“It takes oppression and hardship to stiffen men's guts and put the fire of hell into their thews.”

— Robert E. Howard