Humour Quote by Jules Verne

“One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole…

— Jules Verne

“As Adrian hurried past the Senate House he noticed two old men standing outside Bowes and Bowes. He put an extra spring in his…

— Stephen Fry

“Here are sixty thousand," replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank-bills. This had a prodigious effect on Andrew Speedy. An American…

— Jules Verne

“He told him about his routines, how they had started out as a comfort and became a prison. (He was about to say that…

— Phaedra Patrick

“While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the north gate…

— Ross King

“As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried along the…

— Stephanie Barron

“There were fissures and chasms in the walls and floor, and every now and then a crack would open right before their feet. The…

— Tolkien

“They were expressions of who he was and what he’d become, and he couldn’t do anything about any of it, apart from retrace his…

— Nick Hornby

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“That’s when he’d run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and…

— Carmen Amato

“The solution had taken a terrific toll. The restless turning of the mind tormented by a puzzle, the preoccupation at meals, the insomnia, the…

— David Kahn

“He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He’d successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm’s length, flitting out of their…

— Jon Krakauer