Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howardwas an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 January 1906
CountryUnited States of America
civilization evil natural
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
country expression civilization
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
civilization mazes customs
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
civilization skins red
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
civilization triumph natural
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
thinking civilization savagery
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
live-life men civilization
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
absolutely among dim enter foreign people profession seems shores unreal
Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
art writing culture
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
women emotional cobras
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
men weapons hell
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.
blind palate deny
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 greatest-man
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.