Robert E. Howard

“Blast your soul, you hussy!" he exclaimed in exasperation.”

— Robert E. Howard

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth,…

— Robert E. Howard

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to…

— Robert E. Howard

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which…

— Robert E. Howard

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still…

— 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

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

— Robert E. Howard

No man can be convinced when he will not.

— Robert E. Howard

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

— 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

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

— Robert E. Howard

“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and…

— Robert E. Howard

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

— Robert E. Howard

“Look at me, Conan!" She threw wide her arms. "I am Belit, queen of the black coast. Oh, tiger of the North,…

— Robert E. Howard

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

— Robert E. Howard

One man's bane is another's bliss.

— Robert E. Howard

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

“He stalked through the world as a god, for no earthly weapon could harm him, and to him a century was like…

— 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

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I…

— Robert E. Howard

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;…

— 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

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read…

— Robert E. Howard

It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

— Robert E. Howard

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

— Robert E. Howard