Jules Verne Quotes

Help!"This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. S...

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was a...

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, ...

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-...

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the hist...

Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which h...

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm...

So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me wi...

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulg...

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled ...

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had...

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

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

But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run...

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot b...

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this lon...

Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy...

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

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

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

Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools ex...

While there is life, there is hope.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its...

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like w...

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and e...

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Liberty is worth paying for.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this...

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

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

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discov...

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply im...

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healt...

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His in...

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians...

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinar...

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...

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

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming t...

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I th...

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousa...

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw tw...