WOTW quotes 🪖 Flashcards
(9 cards)
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own…
The Narrator
The chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one.
Ogilvy
Which is to say, I ran.
The Narrator
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
The Narrator
This isn’t a war… It never was a war, any more than there’s war between men and ants.
The Artilleryman
We men, with our bicycles and road-skates, our Lilienthal soaring-machines, our guns and ships, and all the busy little toys of the anæmic nineteenth century.
The Narrator (reflecting on humanity’s perceived advancement before the invasion)
It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently.
The Narrator (describing the devastating power of the Heat-Ray)
For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.
The Narrator (expressing his despair and isolation)
Perhaps they are watching us now.
The Narrator (a chilling thought from the epilogue, suggesting a continued, unseen presence)
