Jules Verne quotes - page 3

Jules Verne was a French novelist and pioneer of science fiction, renowned for his imaginative adventure stories. His works, such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Around the World in Eighty Days," inspired generations of readers and writers. He laid the foundation for modern science fiction literature with his visionary ideas. Here are 67 of his quotes:

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

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

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Jules Verne

One's native land! There should one live! There die!

Jules Verne

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Jules Verne

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

Jules Verne

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

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

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

Jules Verne

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

Jules Verne

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

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

Jules Verne

Le grand architecte de l'univers l'a construite on bons matériaux.

Jules Verne

Variant: They did unto others what they would not have others do unto them, an immoral principle that is the basic premise of the art of war.

Jules Verne