413 Quotes by Jules Verne

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Why, you are a man of heart!""Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.

I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously

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