Jules Verne

“Mr. Fogg accordingly tasted the dish, but, despite its spiced sauce, found it far from palatable. He rang for the landlord, and,…

— Jules Verne

“A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous…

— Jules Verne

“That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.”

— Jules Verne

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

— Jules Verne

“Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with…

— Jules Verne

“Adieu, sun! Disappear, thou radiant orb! rest beneath this open sea, and let a night of six months spread its shadows over…

— Jules Verne

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

— Jules Verne

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot…

— Jules Verne

“Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!”

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

“Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five…

— Jules Verne

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

— Jules Verne

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

— Jules Verne

“Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise.”

— Jules Verne

I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

— Jules Verne

“There are those intractable tribes, of whom Petherick, Arnaud, Miuni, and the young traveller Lejean, to whom we are indebted for the…

— Jules Verne

“-the future is but the present a little farther on.”

— Jules Verne

“And this accident came about...?"Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a…

— Jules Verne

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

— Jules Verne

“– Mais… – Assez. Quand la science a prononcé, il n’y a plus qu’à se taire.”

— Jules Verne

“he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.”

— Jules Verne

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly…

— Jules Verne

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that…

— Jules Verne

“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the…

— Jules Verne

“THEY'D CHANGE THE AXIS OF THE EARTH! There are fortunes to be made in polar real estate! Just change the climate of…

— Jules Verne