99 Jules Verne Quotes

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist.

He was born in Île Feydeau. In France and the majority of Europe, Verne is regarded as a significant author.

He also authored several plays, short tales, personal narratives, poems, songs, and studies in the art, sciences, and literature in addition to his books.

Beginning in 1852, when Anne T. Wilbur's translation of Jules Verne's short novel 'A Voyage in a Balloon' 1851 appeared in the American periodical Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Verne's works were first translated into English.

Whether it was submarines, space travel, air transport on land, or deep-sea research, his Voyages Extraordinary exposed a range of technologies and technical developments years before they were attainable.

Now let's go through some of his quotes:

Famous Jules Verne Quotes

Read on for famous Jules Verne quotes that will make you ponder.

"Music is no longer tasted; it is swallowed."

-Paris in the Twentieth Century

"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach than the point of departure."

-From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon

"A scholar has to know a little of everything."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other, but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by a person."

"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

"One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech."

"On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it."

"Whereas, once underway, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."

"Whereas, once underway, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"The sea is only the embodiment of supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite..."

"People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!"
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"The earth does not need new continents, but new men."

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

-From the Earth to the Moon

"What one person can think, another person can do."

"Savages!' he echoed, ironically."

"You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t their savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?"

"Why lower yourself to taking pride in being American or British when you can boast of being a person!"
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness, and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread."

"A wicked person is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are able to inspire it."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"As for difficulties,' replied Ferguson, in a serious tone,

'they were made to be overcome."

-Five Weeks in a Balloon

"It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth, and nothing is done without a reason that God sometimes lets scientists discover."

-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"What you do for the money, you do badly."

"My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"The happiest animal in the world," he used to say, " would be a snail who could make himself just such a shell as he wanted; I should try to be an intelligent snail."
-The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Jules Verne quotes from Journey to the Center of the Earth

Here is a list of quotes from the Center of the Earth that will surprise you.

"When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures."

"While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a person's heart beats, as long as a person's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will allow himself to despair."

"Man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise of the thinking faculty!"

"One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary."

"We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the blatant gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read."

"Anything one person can imagine, other men can make real."

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth."

"I dream with my eyes open."

"I don't think a being endowed with willpower should ever despair, as long as he hears beats."

"Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf."

"I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!"

"And whichsoever way thou goest may fortune follow."

"As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has a need to despair of life."

"Wherever he saw a hole, he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important."

"When I returned to partial life, my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted, I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this; never had any living being been so utterly forsaken."

"It is only when you suffer that you really understand."

"What darkness to you is light to me."

"Until I discovered the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.
My dear uncle-' I began.
Nor you either,' he added."

"At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other."

Jules Verne quotes from Around the World in Eighty Days

Here is a list of quotes by Jules Verne from Around the World in Eighty Days.

(Jules Verne has authored more than 60 books including novels and short stories)

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

"The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment."

"Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing."

"Monsieur is going to leave home?
'Yes,' returned Phileas Fogg.
We are going round the world."

"A minimum put to good use is enough for anything."

"A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager."

"I see that it is by no means useless to travel if a person wants to see something new."

"A well-used minimum suffices for everything."

"He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody."

"Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment?"

"But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumference."

"It is certain,' exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph.

'But silence, do you hear me? Silence upon the whole subject, and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the center of the earth."

"As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his program."

"Solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs."

"As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him."

Jules Verne quotes from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

"The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings."

"Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it in the interest of science.
Ned Land: Perhaps it will be better to hunt it in the interest of the kitchen."

"There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages,' said Conseil,
or the disadvantage of not having one universal language."

"God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, was the only judges to whom he was answerable."

"For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature."

"It was marvelous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of colored tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colorist!"

"Sir,' replied the commander, 'I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo, and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus."

"Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!"

"Nature's creative power is far beyond a person's instinct of destruction."

"That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country, and I am still, and should be, to my last breath, one of them!"

"Wait a few minutes; our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied."

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

"Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible since nature's creative powers are greater than a person's destructive instincts."

"Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned."

"The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of supernatural and wonderful existence."

"If his destiny is strange, it is also sublime."

"Everything has an end; everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten."

"I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory."

"That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred."

"I am not what you call a civilized person! I have done with society entirely for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!."

"There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages," said Conseil, "or the disadvantage of not having one universal language."

"From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

"Mobilis in Mobile."

"If his destiny is strange, it is also sublime."

"Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks
Yes, sir, of sharks and men."

"What use is the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?"

"If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant, we may be saved."

"Oh, figures!' answered Ned.
You can make figures do whatever you want."

"It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me."

Jules Verne quotes from The Mysterious Island

Here is a list of Jules Verne Quotes from The Mysterious Island.

"It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise."

"Man is never perfect, nor contented."

"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends, and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."

"Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to and who teaches the best."

"What pen can describe this scene of marvelous horror; what pencil can portray it?"

"All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived."

"In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, a person is powerless."

"He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy but retains our esteem."

"The colonists had no library at their disposal, but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted."

"Solitude and isolation are painful things and beyond human endurance."

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

"So is a person's heart. The desire to perform a work that will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world."

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!

And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"