Jules Verne Quotes

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

L’astre des nuits, par sa proximité relative et le spectacle rapidement renouvelé de ses phases diverses, a tout d’abord partagé avec le Soleil l’attention des habitants de la Terre.

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.

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.

you don't see, I dare say, Axel, but if you were to listen, you might hear.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

"Why, you are a man of heart!"

"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when I have the time."

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

The earth does not want new continents, but new men.

Celui qui se trompe dans une intention qu’il croit bonne, on peut le combattre, on ne cesse pas de l’estimer.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

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.