Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

“the time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in the mantle of virtue.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:virtue patience

“Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:action thought

“To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:appearance

“I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:silence

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