Conan Quotes

“There is always a way, if the desire be coupled with courage,” answered the Cimmerian”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection

“They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight of these walls.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“He was like a tiger among baboons as he leaped, side-stepped and spun, offering an ever-moving target, while his ax wove a shining wheel of death about him. For”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“You can not escape me!" he roared. "Lead me into a trap and I'll pile the heads of your kinsmen at your feet. Hide from me and I'll tear apart the mountains to find you! I'll follow you to hell and beyond hell!”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection

“When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat, The people scattered gold-dust before my horses feet; But now I am a great king, the people hound my track With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back. —The Road of Kings.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection

“The thing was not a human — it could not be; it was a growth of Life from the pits of blasphemous creation — a perversion of evolutionary development. The”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“A pantherish twist and shift of his body avoided the blundering rush of two yellow swordsmen, and the blade of one missing its objective, was sheathed in the breast of the other. A”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep.” “Then”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“You black dog!” A red mist of fury swept across Conan’s eyes. “Were I free I’d give you a broken back!”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“Conan, grim, blood-stained, naked but for a loin-cloth, shackles on his mighty limbs, his blue eyes blazing beneath the tangled black mane which fell over his low broad forehead.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“towers of spider-haunted mystery,”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection

“Let him make rimes for the vultures.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“I saw that — that black thing squatting like an ape among the branches, leering down at me.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“Suddenly the black torturer laid down the pipes and rose, towering over the writhing white figure.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“Conan mentally termed the creatures black men, for lack of a better term; instinctively he knew that these tall ebony beings were not men, as he understood the term. No”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“the mere fact of a black figure racing across the landscape carrying a white captive was bizarre enough,”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“So Conan, glaring from under his tousled mane, saw the white naked figure of Natala writhing in the lustful grasp of a black nightmare shape that could have only been bred in the lost pits of hell. The”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“Kothian culture and religion had suffered from a subtle admix ture of Shemite and Stygian strains.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“Men spoke of tribal war, of a gathering of vultures in the southeast, and a terrible leader who led his swiftly increasing hordes to victory.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“It was passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“Then he shrieked. In his hand the wooden shaft suddenly writhed. Its rigid outline became pliant, melting in his grasp. He tried to throw it from him, but it was too late. He held a living serpent in his naked hand, and already it had coiled about his wrist and its wicked wedge-shaped head darted at his muscular arm. He screamed again and his eyes became distended, his features purple. He went to his knees shaken by an awful convulsion, and then lay still.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection

“Rinaldo wrote me a deathly song there, and keen was the stylus.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection

“These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like.” “Let”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“Some would call him an ape, but he is almost as different from a real ape as he is different from a real man. His people dwell far to the east, in the mountains that fringe the eastern frontiers of Zamora. There are not many of them; but, if they are not exterminated, I believe they will become human beings in perhaps a hundred thousand years. They are in the formative stage; they are neither apes, as their remote ancestors were, nor men, as their remote descendants may be. They dwell in the high crags of well-nigh inaccessible mountains, knowing nothing of fire or the making of shelter or garments, or the use of weapons. Yet they have a language of a sort, consisting mainly of grunts and clicks. “I”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“their squat-walled cities were drenched in blood.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“The black spoke in a sea-coast dialect, and Conan replied; he had learned the jargon while a corsair on the coasts of Kush. “Long”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“How did you come to your crown, you and that black-faced pig beside you? Your fathers did the fighting and the suffering, and handed their crowns to you on golden platters. What you inherited without lifting a finger — except to poison a few brothers — I fought for. “You”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection

“up in the glade, and notch an arrow.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection