Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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

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Even theories must have foundations.

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

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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

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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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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

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The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

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It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-

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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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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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