Jules Verne Quotes

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Liberty is worth paying for.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

What darkness to you is light to me

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

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

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

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

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

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.

You will travel in a Land of Marvels

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

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.

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

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.

However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

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.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

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.

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

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!

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.