Tarzan Quotes

“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, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“THREE days crawled slowly out of the east and followed one another across the steaming jungle and over the edge of the world beyond.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“In death they were alone with their love.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“Come, then," cried Tarzan, "and prove your loyalty. It were better to die now than to live in slavery forever.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“Always, everywhere, man is man, nor has he altered greatly beneath his veneer since he scurried into a hole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million years ago.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“Formerly they had dwelt in the Belgian Congo until the cruelties of their heartless oppressors had driven them to seek the safety of unexplored solitudes beyond the boundaries of Leopold's domain.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“As he passed through the winding corridors and the subterranean apartments, Tarzan saw nothing of the hyenas. "They will return," he said to himself. In the crater between the towering walls Bukawai, cold with terror, trembled, trembled as with ague. "They will return!" he cried, his voice rising to a fright-filled shriek. And they did.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“grewsomely.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“fetich”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“she faced the fearful reality of choosing between the final alternatives–Nikolas Rokoff on one hand and self-destruction upon the other.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“waiter heard”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“The girl decided that she had but seen a bundle of refuse thrown overboard by one of the ship's crew, and a moment later sought her berth.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“It is true that the latter had assumed much more of the fault than was rightly his, but if he lied a little he may be excused, for he lied in the service of a woman, and he lied like a gentleman.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“SAPRISTI!”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“To say that Nikolas Rokoff is a devil would be to place a wanton affront upon his satanic majesty.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“For a naked man to drag a shrieking, clawing man-eater forth from a window by the tail to save a strange white girl, was indeed the last word in heroism.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“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, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“the men of Pheli looked quite as brutal as the hyaenodons and there was nothing impressive or magnificent in their appearance as there had been in the mien of the savage carnivores–a fact which is almost universally noticeable when a comparison is made between the human race and the so-called lower orders.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“Perhaps, thought Gridley, in nature's laboratory each type that had at some era dominated all others represented an experiment in the eternal search for perfection. The invertebrate had given way to fishes, the fishes to the reptiles, the reptiles to the birds and mammals, and these, in turn, had been forced to bow to the greater intelligence of man. What would be next? Gridley was sure that there would be something after man, who is unquestionably the Creator's greatest blunder, combining as he does all the vices of preceding types from invertebrates to mammals, while possessing few of their virtues.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“when man came Tarzan investigated, for man alone of all creatures brings change and dissension and strife wheresoever he first sets foot.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“Unless they had a white leader they could not succeed," replied Hasta. "And why not a white leader then?" asked Tarzan. "That is unthinkable," replied Hasta.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“We have dominated them for so many centuries," he explained, "that fear of us is an inherited instinct. Our slaves will never rise against their masters.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“It will not be long now," replied Cassius Hasta. "Already they have collected so many prisoners to exhibit in the triumph and to take part in the combats in the arena that they are forced to confine Negroes and whites in the same dungeons, a thing they do not ordinarily do.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“The soldiers laid hold of Tarzan, but he shook them off. "Tell him," snapped the ape-man, "that as one white man to another I demand an answer to my question. Tell him that I did not approach his country as an enemy, but as a friend, and that I shall look to him to see that I am accorded the treatment to which I am entitled, and that before I leave this room.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“You've been looking for me?" asked Blake. "Ever since I learned that you had become separated from your safari." "By George, that was white of you!”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“The sun was sinking behind the western hills as Tarzan turned toward Nimmr. The chain mail that he wore was heavy, hot and uncomfortable, and Tarzan had not gone far before he discarded it. He had his knife and his rope. These he always kept with him, but he left the sword with the armor and with a sigh of relief continued on his way.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“Never in his life had Tarzan seen such fierce, bold men, such gluttons for battle. That they gloried in conflict and in death with a fierce lust that surpassed the maddest fanaticism he had ever witnessed filled Tarzan's breast with admiration. What men! What warriors!”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“Sir Bertram shook his head and spurred to meet an antagonist that had just challenged him. He was not sure that the act of Lord Tarzan had been entirely ethical, but he had to admit that it had been magnificent.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“It was not Viscount Greystoke who faced the Knight of the Sepulcher; it was not the king of the great apes. It was the chief of the Waziri, and no other arm in the world could cast a war spear as could his.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures

“This was a new experience for the ape-man, a new adventure, a new thrill. He knew as much about jousting as he did about ping-pong, but from childhood he had wielded a spear, and so he smiled as the knight charged upon him.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan: The Complete Adventures