Jules Verne Quotes
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.
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And whichever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... The Americans are great boilermakers.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
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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.