He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for 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

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One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

And then again, had I declared myself I should have robbed the woman I love of the wealth and position that her marriage to Clayton will now insure to her. I could not have done that – could I, Paul?

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

In Hastor I have paid a good price to see one of these creatures and now I found myself in a position where I should very gladly pay a good deal more not to see one, but from the noise he was making in the shaft beneath me it appeared to me that he was determined that I should have a free show and he a free meal.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

The lion was quite close to him now – but a few paces intervened – he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It was on the morning of the second day that the first link was forged in what was destined to form a chain of circumstances ending in a life for one then unborn such as has never been paralleled in the history of man.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters to occupy my time than spilling the blood of strange warriors.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Ah, John, I wish that I might be a man with a man’s philosophy, but I am but a woman, seeing with my heart rather than my head, and all that I can see is too horrible, too unthinkable to put into words.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

My longing was beyond the power of opposition;.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It had become evident to Tarzan that without money one must die. D’Arnot had told him not to worry, since he had more than enough for both, but the ape-man was learning many things and one of them was that people looked down upon one who accepted money from another without giving something of equal value in exchange.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Your scabby heart hath revealed its sores to all the world.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

To face that savage mountain of onrushing ferocity, to stand unshaken before the hideous fangs that he knew were bared in slavering blood-thirstiness, though he could not see them, required nerves of steel; but of such were the nerves of Carthoris of Helium.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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