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Jules Verne Quotes | Quotes said by Jules Verne

  • Jules Verne Quote #1

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


  • Jules Verne Quote #2

    In Sneffels Yoculis craterem kem delibat umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende, audas viator, et terrestre centrum attinges. kod feci. Arne Saknussem

  • Jules Verne Quote #3

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #4

    A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

  • Jules Verne Quote #5

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #6

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #7

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #8

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #9

    Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

  • Jules Verne Quote #10

    Friend, replied Michael Strogoff, Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!
    Only fools expect reward on earth, replied the mujik.

  • Jules Verne Quote #11

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #12

    Help!
    This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the surface of the sea; and I heard, yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:
    If master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease.
    I seized with one hand my faithful Conseil's arm.
    Is it you? said I, you?
    Myself, answered Conseil; and waiting master's orders.
    That shock threw you as well as me in the sea?
    No; but, being in my master's service, I followed him.
    The worthy fellow thought that was but natural.

  • Jules Verne Quote #13

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #14

    I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

  • Jules Verne Quote #15

    I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

  • Jules Verne Quote #16

    Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

  • Jules Verne Quote #17

    In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, 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 voyage from Liverpool to New York!

  • Jules Verne Quote #18

    In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

  • Jules Verne Quote #19

    It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure

  • Jules Verne Quote #20

    It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

  • Jules Verne Quote #21

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #22

    Liberty is worth paying for.

  • Jules Verne Quote #23

    Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

  • Jules Verne Quote #24

    Mientras el corazón lata y la carne palpite, no me explico por qué un ser dotado de voluntad se deje dominar por la desesperación.

  • Jules Verne Quote #25

    Mientras el corazón lata y la carne palpite, no me explico que un ser dotado de voluntad se deje dominar por la desesperación.

  • Jules Verne Quote #26

    No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo.

  • Jules Verne Quote #27

    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.

  • Jules Verne Quote #28

    Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

  • Jules Verne Quote #29

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

  • Jules Verne Quote #30

    Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club

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