"How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may……" — Jules Verne
"How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!"
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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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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them:…
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth…
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings…
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,…
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