Jules Verne Quotes

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

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

"Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time."

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

I dream with my eyes open.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Mobilis in Mobile