413 Quotes by Jules Verne

Victor Hugo on dokuzuncu yüzyılın ilk yansının en yüksek kişileşmiş simgesi ve bir daha eşine rastlanmayacak bir okulun başıdır. Bütün eserleriyetmiş beş basım görmüştür; buradaki sonuncusudur.Bugün o da ötekiler gibi unutulmuştur oğlum;yeterince insan öldürmemiştir ki hatırlansın!

In my nervous frame of mind I expected to see the ghost of Hamlet wandering on the legendary castle terrace.

Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!

So, fatality will play me these terrible tricks. The elements themselves conspire to overwhelm me with mortification. Air, fire, and water combine their united efforts to oppose my passage. Well, they shall see what the earnest will of a determined man can do. I will not yield, I will not retreat even one inch; and we shall see who shall triumph in this great contest - man or nature.

Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wantedto know the depth of it. To him this was important.

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. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.

However strange his destiny may be, it is also sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, 'That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?' only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.

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