"A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is……" — Jules Verne
"A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager."
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Jules Verne
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151 Quotes by Jules Verne
Jules Verne has 151 quotes on this site.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand…
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by…
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is…
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons…
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for…
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers…
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature…
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
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Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them.…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
— Louis Kronenberger
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or…
— Robert Hooke
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If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social…
— Kerry Packer
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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest…
— Bertrand Russell
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of…
— William Blackstone
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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
— George Bernard Shaw
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