The Best Jules Verne quotes

Is not a woman’s heart unfathomable? — Jules Verne

Solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs. — Jules Verne

Why, you are a man of heart!’ ‘Sometimes,’ replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. ‘When I have the time. — Jules Verne

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. — Jules Verne

Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures — Jules Verne

As long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. — Jules Verne

Look with all your eyes, look. — Jules Verne

I dream with my eyes open. — Jules Verne

The earth does not want new continents, but new men. — Jules Verne

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men. — Jules Verne

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. — Jules Verne

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

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. — Jules Verne

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds–a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! — Jules Verne

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. — Jules Verne

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 centre of the earth. — Jules Verne

One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship. — Jules Verne

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

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends. — Jules Verne

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting! — Jules Verne

Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. — Jules Verne

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I’ve got 20 quid riding on you — Jules Verne

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance. — Jules Verne

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race––unhappily. — Jules Verne

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. — Jules Verne

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition! — Jules Verne

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. — Jules Verne

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. — Jules Verne

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet–bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions. — Jules Verne

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world. — Jules Verne

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. — Jules Verne

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. — Jules Verne

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. — Jules Verne

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? — Jules Verne

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan–by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne

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. — Jules Verne

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty–fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered. — Jules Verne

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. — Jules Verne

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

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life. — Jules Verne

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? — Jules Verne

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself? — Jules Verne

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. — Jules Verne

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. — Jules Verne

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 need to despair of life. — Jules Verne

Movement is life;’ and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. — Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. — Jules Verne

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth. — Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth. — Jules Verne

We see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. — Jules Verne

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity–gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? — Jules Verne