"A Princess of Mars" Quotes

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.

I am a fighting man, and it is a fight alone that I must win.

I had been in love with a princess of Mars and I had fought for her and won her.

I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.

I have never been able to fathom her, or her sudden impulses; so what she may do next I cannot guess.

The only fear they entertain is that some racer of the air will come and despoil them of their dead.

I know that I cannot save you by words alone, and that I shall never see you again.

It is a strange tale and utterly beyond belief; but if it be true, and it seems that it must be, then here is the explanation of the disappearance of the thousands of victims who have vanished without a trace from the cities of Okar.