Jules Verne Quotes

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.

Quant à voir la ville, il n'y pensait même pas, étant de cette race d'Anglais qui font visiter par leur domestique les pays qu'ils traversent.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

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

Deseaba estar extraviado, no perdido. Extraviado, aún pueden encontrarle a uno.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.

What one man can think, another man can do.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

"Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)

to the poet a pearl is a tear of the sea

"Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men."

La civilisation ne recule jamais, et il semble qu’elle emprunte tous les droits à la nécessité.

Cheers for Edgar Poe!

This lucid explanation of the phenomena we had witnessed appeared to me quite satisfactory. However great and mighty the marvels of nature may seem to us, they are always to be explained by physical reasons. Everything is subordinate to some great law of nature.