Robert E Howard Quotes

“When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?”
― Robert E. Howard

“A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.”
― Robert E. Howard, Beyond the Black River

“Wenn das Leben eine Illusion ist, dann bin ich es nicht weniger, und somit ist die Illusion für mich Wirklichkeit.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

“And those monsters saw not a young man with a sword but a scarred and screaming horror with the rising red doom of the sun at his back and a hellishly shrieking, flashing, living sword in his hands.”
― Stephen R. Babb, Skallagrim – In The Vales Of Pagarna

“When my fictional characters can’t slash and slog and litter the pages with one another’s carcasses, I’m an utter flop as a tale-spinner.”
― Robert E. Howard