Robert E. Howard - Conan

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It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.

Robert E. Howard

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

Robert E. Howard

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

Robert E. Howard

I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

Robert E. Howard

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.

Robert E. Howard

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

Robert E. Howard

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

Robert E. Howard