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Edgar Rice Burroughs quotes
10 quotes from 1 of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
Tarzan of the Apes
When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN’S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
“I was born there,” said Tarzan, quietly. “My mother was an Ape, and of course she couldn’t tell me much about it. I never knew who my father was.”
— Tarzan · XXVIII. Conclusion
I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.
— Spoken by a character · XII. Man’s Reason
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house.
I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love.
— Spoken by a character · XXIV. Lost Treasure
Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!
Teach me to speak the language of men.
And could she love where she feared?
His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.