American writer (1875-1950)
Tarzan held a peculiar position in the tribe. They seemed to consider him one of them and yet in some way different. The older males either ignored him entirely or else hated him so vindictively that but for his wondrous agility and speed and the fierce protection of the huge Kala he would have been dispatched at an early age.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Tarzan of the Apes
She was quite the most wonderful animal that I have ever looked upon, and what few of her charms her apparel hid, it quite effectively succeeded in accentuating.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
The People That Time Forgot
Like all his kind and all other bullies, von Schoenvorts was a coward at heart.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
The Land That Time Forgot
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
The Beasts of Tarzan
Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
John Carter of Mars
My civilization is not even skin deep -- it does not go deeper than my clothes.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
The Return of Tarzan
It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
The Warlord of Mars
They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
With man it is different. When he comes many of the larger animals instinctively leave the district entirely, seldom if ever to return; and thus it has always been with the great anthropoids. They flee man as man flees a pestilence.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Tarzan of the Apes
This was a new menace that threatened them, something that they couldn't explain; and so, naturally, it aroused within them superstitious fear.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Out of Time's Abyss
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Tarzan of the Apes
Smiles are the foundation of beauty.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Tarzan of the Apes
It has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Tarzan of the Apes
I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Pirates of Venus
Nature must have contrasts; she must have shadows as well as highlights; sorrow with happiness; both wrong and right; and sin as well as virtue.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
John Carter: Adventures on Mars
Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear to ear, exposing three rows of long, white tusks. Then endow this creature of your imagination with the agility and ferocity of a half-starved Bengal tiger and the strength of a span of bulls, and you will have some faint conception of Woola in action.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
The Warlord of Mars
I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
A Princess of Mars