War of the Worlds quotes

The Narrator

• Ungovernable terror gripped me

• I gripped my wife’s arm

• Holding my breath until movement was agony

• With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back and stuck him with the butt

• I had still kept a vague hope

• It may be that the destruction of the Martians is only a reprieve

The Artilleryman

• I drew him

• Began to sob and weep like a little boy

• Followed me, almost mechanically

• Birds have shadows these days

• The useless and mischievous deserve to die

• Strange, undisciplined dreamer of great dreams

The Curate

• His face was a fair weakness

• They are invulnerable! They are pitiless!

• ‘Be a man’ said I

• Woe! Woe! Woe!

• A man insane

• Frothy repentance for his vacant sham of gods service

The Martians

• Pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects

• Heaved and puled convulsively

• Invincible, inevitable sword of heat

• Brains wearing different bodies according to their needs

• swift, complex, and perfect

• Doomed, dying and rotten

Fear

• Ungovernable terror gripped me

• They are invulnerable! They are pitiless!

• Began to sob and weep like a little boy

• Stirring, slipping, running, pouring en masse

• The fear and empire of man had passed away

• Would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country

Societal Collapse

• It was no time for pugilistic chivalry

• The pinnacle of the mosque vanished

• Some gnawed at their hands in thirst

• The useless and mischievous deserve to die

• Nations, civilisation, progress, its all over

• Woking station was still under-going repairs