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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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One's native land!?there should one live! there die!
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You will travel in a Land of Marvels.
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It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
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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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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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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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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
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Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.