Top 200 Jules Verne Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Jules Verne

152. “It is unnecessary to say that the seeds collected by Herbert on Tabor Island had been carefully sown. The plateau thus formed one immense kitchen-garden, well laid out and carefully tended, so that the arms of the settlers were never in want of work. There was always something to be done. As the esculents increased in number, it became necessary to enlarge the simple beds, which threatened to grow into regular fields and replace the meadows.”

— Jules Verne

153. “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.”

— Jules Verne

154. “What human being would ever have conceived the idea of such a journey? and, if such a person really existed, he must be an idiot, whom one would shut up in a lunatic ward, rather than within the walls of the projectile.”

— Jules Verne

155. “It is only when you suffer that you really understand.”

— Jules Verne

156. “Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? I was all adrift among a thousand contradictory hypotheses, but I could not lay hold of one.”

— Jules Verne

157. “He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.”

— Jules Verne

158. “Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment?”

— Jules Verne

159. “The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.”

— Jules Verne

160. “That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!”

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161. “So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.”

— Jules Verne

162. “Most annoying circumstances have brought you into the presence of a man who has broken all the ties of humanity. You have come to trouble my existence.”

— Jules Verne

163. “It may be said here that the wise policy of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native religions.”

— Jules Verne

164. “The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!”

— Jules Verne

165. “These composers,” Captain Nemo answered me, “are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and.”

— Jules Verne

166. “Adieu, sun! Disappear, thou radiant orb! rest beneath this open sea, and let a night of six months spread its shadows over my new domains!”

— Jules Verne

167. “The devil!” exclaimed Ned.”

— Jules Verne

168. “That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.”

— Jules Verne

169. “A wicked man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it.”

— Jules Verne

170. “There’s an island over there. On that island there are trees. Under those trees there are animals carrying around chops and roast beefs, and I wouldn’t mind a bit sinking my teeth into a little good meat.”

— Jules Verne

171. “As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America.”

— Jules Verne

172. “He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment.”

— Jules Verne

173. “I looked at his intelligent forehead, furrowed with premature wrinkles, produced probably by misfortune and sorrow. I tried to learn the secret of his life from the last words that escaped his lips.”

— Jules Verne

174. “I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope.”

— Jules Verne

175. “Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.”

— Jules Verne

176. “But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.”

— Jules Verne

177. “Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!”

— Jules Verne

178. “The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.”

— Jules Verne

179. “In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.”

— Jules Verne

180. “In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.”

— Jules Verne

181. “A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter.”

— Jules Verne

182. “Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language,” said Conseil “or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?”

— Jules Verne

183. “Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?”

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184. “These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas. One day, when I was suggesting this theory to Captain Nemo, he replied coldly: “The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”

— Jules Verne

185. “I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously.”

— Jules Verne

186. “I declare it is easy to lead a snail’s life.”

— Jules Verne

187. “In this manner, in early days, were formed those vast and prodigious layers of coal, which an ever – increasing consumption must utterly use up in about three centuries more, if people do not find some more economic light than gas, and some cheaper motive power than steam. All.”

— Jules Verne

188. “Ah! women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!”

— Jules Verne

189. “Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us.”

— Jules Verne

190. “But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so;... Truly, would you not for less than that go around the world?”

— Jules Verne

191. “Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race – unhappily.”

— Jules Verne

192. “In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.”

— Jules Verne

193. “Cheers for Edgar Poe!”

— Jules Verne

194. “If providence has created the stars and the planets, Man has called the cannon-ball into existence.”

— Jules Verne

195. “These suckling-pigs were really delicious, and Pencroft was devouring his share with great gusto, when all at once a cry and an oath escaped him. “What’s the matter?” asked Cyrus Harding. “The matter? the matter is that I have just broken a tooth!” replied the sailor. “What, are there pebbles in your peccaries?” said Gideon Spilett. “I suppose so,” replied Pencroft, drawing from his lips the object which had cost him a grinder! – It was not a pebble – it was a leaden bullet.”

— Jules Verne

196. “Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.”

— Jules Verne

197. “One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.”

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198. “And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?”

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199. “To the sheepfold!”

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200. “One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.”

— Jules Verne