Jules Verne Quotes

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

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

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

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

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!"
"And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"

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

"Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.
"My dear uncle-" I began.
"Nor you either," he added."

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.