Jules Verne Quotes

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

While there is life, there is hope.

Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes, " replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotionit is the ‘Living Infinite...

I believe every story that is made in the mind of an author

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

Friend, " replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools expect reward on earth, " replied the mujik.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.