💬 Quotes

"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."

"Men change their mansions, but they cannot change their gods."

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

"He had that peculiar sort of high spirits which is nearly akin to madness, and that peculiar sort of solemnity which is nearest to a joke."

"We makeers of cities do not know what we are doing. We are building our Nothings smarter and grander; that is all."

"Quixote was not mad in the common sense; he was only wildly logical upon a point where everyone else was wildly illogical."

"It is the chief of all the terrors of man, a very comfortable terror, that nothing ever happens twice."

"There are no morals in Paris; there are only money and circumstances."

"Youth has this in common with power, that it believes all things are possible, and recognizes no obstacles."