Jules Verne Quotes
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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.
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The wisest man may be a blind father.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.
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I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!
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He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.