Jules Verne Quotes

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

~ Jules Verne

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

~ Jules Verne

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

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

~ Jules Verne

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

~ Jules Verne

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

~ Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

~ Jules Verne

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

~ Jules Verne

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

~ Jules Verne

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

~ Jules Verne

Liberty is worth paying for.

~ Jules Verne

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

~ Jules Verne