Top 100 Jules Verne Quotes
#1. 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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#2. The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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#3. Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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#4. Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
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#5. Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!" That
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#6. It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
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#7. It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
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#8. Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)
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#9. Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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#10. And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?
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#11. But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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#12. 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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#13. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite' ... The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility.
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#14. I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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#15. Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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#16. 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.
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#17. The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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#18. 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.
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#19. Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy.
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#20. Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied.
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#21. How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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#22. No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal
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#23. If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved.
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#24. Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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#25. Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
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#28. Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures
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#29. It is never worth while to do anything by halves.
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#31. [we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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#32. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
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#33. There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.
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#34. An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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#35. 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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#36. You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. Your arguments at rotten at the foundation. You speak in the future, ' We shall be there! We shall be here!' I speak in the present,'We are here, and we must profit by it.
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#40. Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest
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#42. Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us.
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#43. Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it, in the interest of science.
Ned Land: Perhaps it will be better to hunt it, in the interest of the kitchen.
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#44. Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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#45. It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
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#46. The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
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#47. Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,
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#48. The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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#49. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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#50. 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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#51. 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.
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#52. I am the Colombus of this nether world!
Dr. Leidenbrock
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#53. But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside. Enough of these phantasies.
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#54. Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
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#55. Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which
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#56. He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
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#57. It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
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#58. But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence, ...
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#59. It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.
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#60. Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
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#61. You are going to visit the land of marvels.
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#62. 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.
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#63. In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.
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#64. I thanked God for having led me through the labyrinth of darkness to the only point at which the voices of my companions could reach me. (p. 122)
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#65. 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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#66. How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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#67. Oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
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#68. Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking.
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#69. Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.
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#70. 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues,
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#71. In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
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#72. Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
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#73. Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
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#74. What one man can think, another man can do.
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#75. One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.
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#76. 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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#78. 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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#79. My uncle" is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.
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#80. 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!
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#81. From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up.
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#82. The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
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#83. 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.
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#84. Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.
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#85. Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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#86. Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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#87. In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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#89. Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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#90. God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.
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#91. In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.
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#92. The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.
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#93. The superb grottoes or caves of Adjuntah, which rival those of Ellora, and perhaps in general beauty surpass them, occupy the lower end of a small valley about half a mile from the town.
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#94. These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force?
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#95. 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
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#96. I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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#97. I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
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#98. Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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#99. 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.
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#100. I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
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