Quotes by : Robert E. Howard

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands....

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance.....

It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless....

Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood....

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey....

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having....

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond....

How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round,While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom....