Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

Even theories must have foundations.

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

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

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I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

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They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

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When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

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I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

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You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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