Top 200 Jules Verne Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

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

— Jules Verne

154. “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

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

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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.”

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157. “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

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

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

— Jules Verne

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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?”

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163. “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

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

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

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166. “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.”

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167. “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

168. “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

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

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

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

— Jules Verne

173. “The devil!” exclaimed Ned.”

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

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175. “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

176. “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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

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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?”

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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. “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

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

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

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

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

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189. “It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years.”

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

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191. “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

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

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193. “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.”

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

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195. “Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country.”

— Jules Verne

196. “Cheers for Edgar Poe!”

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

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

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199. “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?”

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200. “To the sheepfold!”

— Jules Verne