Edgar Rice Burroughs

It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched…

— 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…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip,…

— 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…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“His great bulk swaying to and fro as he threw his weight first upon one side and then upon the other, Tantor…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I never knew my father, my mother was an ape”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment.”

— 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