Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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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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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

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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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I could write stories just as rotten.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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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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Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

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

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In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

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Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

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The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

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Even theories must have foundations.

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

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