Jules Verne Quotes

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not

What you do for money you do badly.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Liberty is worth paying for.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

What one man can think, another man can do.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.