Robert E. Howard Quotes, War Quotes, Skills Quotes

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 wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

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Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

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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 jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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

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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 were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

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One man's bane is another's bliss.

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

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

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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 vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

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Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

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The printed page was like wine to me.

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I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

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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.

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