Jules Verne Quotes
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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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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
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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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It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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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!
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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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One's native land!?there should one live! there die!
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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.
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He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
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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.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.