Top 200 Jules Verne Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!”

— Jules Verne

52. “An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.”

— Jules Verne

53. “Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. “My dear uncle-” I began. “Nor you either,” he added.”

— Jules Verne

54. “An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”

— Jules Verne

55. “He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.”

— Jules Verne

56. “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.”

— Jules Verne

57. “We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

59. “It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.”

— Jules Verne

60. “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.”

— Jules Verne

61. “Distance is but a relative expression, and must end by being reduced to zero.”

— Jules Verne

62. “And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.”

— Jules Verne

63. “What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?”

— Jules Verne

64. “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.”

— Jules Verne

65. “Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature’s creative powers are greater than man’s destructive instincts.”

— Jules Verne

66. “I dream with my eyes open.”

— Jules Verne

67. “With time and thought, one can do a good job.”

— Jules Verne

68. “Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”

— Jules Verne

69. “On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!”

— Jules Verne

70. “He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.”

— Jules Verne

71. “How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!”

— Jules Verne

72. “I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.”

— Jules Verne

73. “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.”

— Jules Verne

74. “A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”

— Jules Verne

75. “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.”

— Jules Verne

76. “The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.”

— Jules Verne

77. “The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”

— Jules Verne

78. “My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.”

— Jules Verne

79. “Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!”

— Jules Verne

80. “I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I’ve got 20 quid riding on you.”

— Jules Verne

81. “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.”

— Jules Verne

82. “An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

84. “We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”

— Jules Verne

85. “A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.”

— Jules Verne

86. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

88. “It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.”

— Jules Verne

89. “Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.”

— Jules Verne

90. “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!”

— Jules Verne

91. “But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!”

— Jules Verne

92. “Better have two strings to one’s bow than none at all!”

— Jules Verne

93. “It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.”

— Jules Verne

94. “The wisest man may be a blind father.”

— Jules Verne

95. “I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!”

— Jules Verne

96. “Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!”

— Jules Verne

97. “I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.”

— Jules Verne

98. “From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

— Jules Verne

99. “Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied.”

— Jules Verne

100. “In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.”

— Jules Verne