Robert E. Howard Short Quotes

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... Free my hands and I'll varnish this floor with your brains!

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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...

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The King is only a slave like yourself, locked with heavier chains.

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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

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Poor devils, they'll wake up in hell without knowing how they got there.

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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

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I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!

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Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

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I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

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Conan sensed their uncertainty and grinned mirthlessly and ferociously. "Who dies first?"

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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

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But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

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Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

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I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

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"To the mistress of all true adventurers!" he whispered, choking on his own blood. "To the Lady Death!"

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And about the table where stood the Dark Man, immovable as a mountain, washed the red waves of slaughter.

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By Crom, I do not like this place, where dead men rise, and sleeping men vanish into the bellies of shadows!

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I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

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My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

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It has fallen upon me, now and again in my sojourns through the world, to ease various evil men of their lives...

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