Jules Verne Quotes

Whoever calls himself Canadian calls himself French.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands.

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.

One's native land! — there should one live! there die!

the human imagination soon got caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies.

Mais aux grandes douleurs le ciel mêle incessamment les grandes joies, et il réservait au professeur Lidenbrock une satisfaction égale à ses désespérants ennuis.

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!
When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures

"Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!"

My over-excitement was beyond all description.

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

Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers.

an energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.