💬 Quotes

"A man is a useless animal in a house-a creature that upsets everything, and comes in at untoward hours, and is particular about his dinner."

"We were all of us poor, and that one circumstance created a kind of bond of union between us; for keeping genteel poverty a secret from each other was our common care."

"Papa was always of opinion that undue economy was worse than waste."

"Elegance is a thing of the heart, not of the purse."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

"Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do."

"Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude."

"Sell when you can, you are not for all markets."

"I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either of these facts."

"My sworn foes of an hour before were ready to die for me, and I would have gladly laid down my life for Tars Tarkas, or Sola, or even the ugly, repulsive Woola."

"I had learned the way to the Martian heart—a mixture of bravery, chivalry, and absolute fearlessness."

"To be a great warrior, one must not only know how to deal death, but how to receive it without a murmur."

"Could it be possible that I was destined to wander through eternity upon some dead and lifeless world?"

"A barren, dead world, yet it was home, and in my heart I had come to love every rod of its forbidding surface."

"Of course it is very difficult for anybody who is only grown-up to understand how things happen to children."

"Things that are impossible just have to be done when you're in a fix."

"It is a very strange thing how fast time goes when you have magic to help you, and how very slowly it goes when you only have lessons."

"Adventures are all very well in their way, but you can have too much of a good thing."