Top 200 Jules Verne Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

105. “Almighty God! enough! enough!”

— Jules Verne

106. “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!”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

108. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

113. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

116. “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

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

— Jules Verne

118. “His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.”

— Jules Verne

119. “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.”

— Jules Verne

120. “Nautron respoc lorni virch.”

— Jules Verne

121. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

124. “Liberty is worth paying for.”

— Jules Verne

125. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

131. “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!”

— Jules Verne

132. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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.”

— Jules Verne

134. “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.”

— Jules Verne

135. “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.”

— Jules Verne

136. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

139. “We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

141. “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.”

— Jules Verne

142. “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.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

145. “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.”

— Jules Verne

146. “A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

150. “When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.”

— Jules Verne