Home › Authors › Zane Grey
Zane Grey Quotes
1872–1939 United States
Pearl Zane Grey (31 January 1872 – 23 October 1939), usually known as Zane Grey, was an American author most famous for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts which idealized the American frontier.
United States Film producers Novelists Also known as: Grey, Zane, Zane Gray
Random Zane Grey quote
7 quotes
For hand in glove with that power was an insatiate greed; they were one and the same.
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)
We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!
The Last of the Plainsmen (1908)
"If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago."
Tales of Southern Rivers (1924)
It was the elision of the weaker element — the survival of the fittest; and some, indeed very many, mothers must lose their sons that way.
The Desert of Wheat (1919)
He called Tull a binder of women, a callous beast who hid behind a mock mantle of righteousness—an’ the last an’ lowest coward on the face of the earth. To prey on weak women through their religion—that was the last unspeakable crime!
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)
To bear up under loss — to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief — to be victor over anger — to smile when tears are close — to resist evil men and base instincts — to hate hate and to love love — to go on when it would seem good to die — to seek ever after the glory and the dream — to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be — that is what any man can do, and so be great.
The North American Almanac (1931)
Remembering Jane’s accusation of bitterness, he tried hard to put aside his rancor in judging Tull. But it was bitter knowledge that made him see the truth. He had felt the shadow of an unseen hand; he had watched till he saw its dim outline, and then he had traced it to a man’s hate, to the rivalry of a Mormon Elder, to the power of a Bishop, to the long, far-reaching arm of a terrible creed.
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)