One single supporter remained faithful to him: an old paralytic, Lord Albermarle. The noble lord, confined to his armchair, would have given his whole fortune to be able to travel around the world, in ten years even; and he bet four thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.

— Jules Verne

Jules Verne Quotes

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

— Jules Verne

I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

— Jules Verne

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.

— Jules Verne

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

— Jules Verne

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

— Jules Verne

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

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

— Jules Verne

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

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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

— Jules Verne

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 man’s destructive instincts.

— Jules Verne

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

— Jules Verne

What darkness to you is light to me.

— Jules Verne

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

— 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

Man is never perfect nor contented.

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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

— Jules Verne

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

— Jules Verne

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

— Jules Verne
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