Top 200 Jules Verne Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist!”

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

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103. “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.”

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104. “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.”

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

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

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

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108. “Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.”

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109. “The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.”

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110. “Almighty God! enough! enough!”

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111. “Ah! sir, live – live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!”

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112. “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.”

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113. “If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”

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114. “Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, and I declare it is easy to lead a snail’s life.”

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115. “Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.”

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116. “Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes; but of mistakes which lead to the discovery of truth.”

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117. “The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature.”

— Jules Verne

118. “Monsieur is going to leave home?” “Yes,” returned Phileas Fogg. “We are going round the world.”

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119. “The mansion in Saville Row, though not sumptuous, was exceedingly comfortable. The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.”

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120. “I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!”

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121. “Liberty is worth paying for.”

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122. “Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, “The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.”

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123. “As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him.”

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124. “Allahabad, that is, the City of God, one of the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the peninsula. The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma’s agency, it descends to the earth.”

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125. “Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.”

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126. “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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127. “His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.”

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128. “La distance est un vain mot, la distance n’existe pas!”

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129. “Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.”

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130. “Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.”

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131. “If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.”

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132. “What I’d like to be above all is a writer...”

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133. “Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.”

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134. “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.”

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135. “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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136. “It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure.”

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137. “When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.”

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138. “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!”

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139. “What do you want?” he said to Passe-partout, whom he took for a native. “Do you need a servant, sir?” asked Passe-partout. “A servant!” echoed the Barnum, as he stroked his beard; “I have two, obedient and faithful, who have never left me, and serve me for nothing but nourishment; and here they are,” he added, as he extended his brawny arms, on which the great veins stood out like whipcord.”

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140. “This done, they entered the grotto, of which the floor was strewn with bones, the guns were carefully loaded, in case of a sudden attack, they had supper, and then just before they lay down to rest, the heap of wood piled at the entrance was set fire to. Immediately, a regular explosion, or rather a series of reports, broke the silence! The noise was caused by the bamboos, which, as the flames reached them, exploded like fireworks. The noise was enough to terrify even the boldest of wild beasts.”

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141. “I’ve been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin. Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England.”

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142. “If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman.”

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143. “However strange his destiny may be, it is also sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, ‘That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?’ only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.”

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144. “Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were rising from the east, and already overcast a part of the heavens.”

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145. “During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.”

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146. “Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. -Lidenbrock.”

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147. “Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.”

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148. “Suppose we save this woman.” “Save the woman, Mr. Fogg!” “I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that.” “Why, you are a man of heart!” “Sometimes,” replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; “when I have the time.”

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149. “No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see.”

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150. “The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.”

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