Robert E. Howard Quotes

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• Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade and even the…
• Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the…
• The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of…
• He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of…
• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
• All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
• Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the…
• I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions;…
• I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat -- and frequently drop the hat himself.
• My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate…
• Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
• It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange…
• I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men…
• Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as…
• What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in…
• How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
• The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
• Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons…
• I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.
• When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the…

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