Balloons Quotes by Jules Verne

Look with all your eyes, look.

— Jules Verne

“As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion.…

— Jules Verne

As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought…

— Jules Verne

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president…

— Jules Verne

Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long…

— Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

— Jules Verne

It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles…

— Jules Verne

“My uncle” is the natives’ usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity…

— Jules Verne

“Kâlagani evidently knew this thinly-peopled region perfectly, and guided us across it most admirably. On the 29th September our train began to ascend the…

— Jules Verne

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

— Jules Verne

“— Isola in vendita per contanti, più le spese, al miglior offerente! — andava ripetendo a perdifiato Dean Felporg, banditore dell'auction, in cui venivano…

— Jules Verne

It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let…

— Jules Verne

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all…

— Jules Verne

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there…

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne