💬 Quotes

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

"Man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep."

"The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope."

"Truth is truth To the end of reckoning."

"To be dead upon Barsoom is simply to change one's form, to lie a bit more quietly, to dream a trifle less disturbingly than when alive."

"A man's true wealth is not measured in the things he possesses, but in the courage of his convictions and the justice of his cause."

"There are no gods upon Barsoom, save those which man has fashioned in his own image to serve his own ends of power and greed."

"Hope dies hardest in the human breast—or in that of a Martian, which is much the same when separated from those they love."

"Custom and superstition are more formidable barriers than steel walls or the fathomless deeps of forgotten seas."

"Love laughs at shackles, and the human spirit—be it of Earth or Mars—refuses to bow long to tyranny."

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."

"Small curs are not regarded when they grin; but great men tremble when the lion roars."

"A day will come when York shall claim his own; and therefore I will take the gewgaws back."

"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."

"True magic isn't about bending the laws of the universe to your will; it is about understanding the delicate threads that already connect everything, and simply having the courage to pull the right one."

"Every secret is a cage. You might build it to keep others out, but eventually, you realize the door was locked from the inside all along."

"A trick relies on what the audience expects to see. Real magic begins the moment reality defies their imagination."

"We spend our lives searching for grand answers in ancient tomes, forgetting that the most profound mysteries of the human heart are written in plain sight."