Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert E. Howard
Age: 30 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 22
Died: 1936
Died: June 11
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Robert Ervin Howard
REH
R. E. Howard
Robert Howard
Two-Gun Bob
Bob Howard
Patrick Mac Conaire
Steve Costigan
Patrick Ervin
Patrick Howard
Sam Walser
Stand
Hell
Even
Legions
Men
Legion
Weapon
Gates
Weapons
Courage

More quotes by Robert E. Howard

Image
I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I'll say one thing about an oil boom it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
Robert E. Howard
Image
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.
Robert E. Howard
Image
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Robert E. Howard
Image
Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
Robert E. Howard
Image
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
Robert E. Howard
Image
The printed page was like wine to me.
Robert E. Howard
Image
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
Robert E. Howard
Image
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
Robert E. Howard
Image
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
Robert E. Howard
Image
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
Robert E. Howard
Image
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
Robert E. Howard
Image
I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
Robert E. Howard
Image
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
Robert E. Howard