5 quotes
"Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness..."
The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)
Conan sensed their uncertainty and grinned mirthlessly and ferociously. "Who dies first?"
The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)
"They have no hope here or hereafter," answered Conan. "Their gods are Crom and his dark race, who rule over a sunless place of everlasting mist, which is the world of the dead. Mitra! The ways of the Aesir were more to my liking."
The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)
When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat,
The people scattered gold-dust before my horses feet;
But now I am a great king, the people hound my track
With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back.
The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)