Robert E. Howard Quotations

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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

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.

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

What always was must always be.

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

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

No man can be convinced when he will not.

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

One man's bane is another's bliss.