The 100 Best Phrases of Jules Verne

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David Holt

I leave you the bestĀ Jules Verne quotes (1828-1905), French writer and playwright, author of works such asĀ Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty thousand leagues of underwater travel Y Around the world in eighty days.

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-There is nothing like imagining to create a future, since what is utopia today will be flesh and blood tomorrow.

-It seems wiser to assume the worst from the start and let the best come as a surprise..

-If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

-Opportunity that may now seem lost may present itself at the last minute.

-Anything a man can imagine, other men can make it real.

-There are no impossible obstacles; there are only strong and weak wills.

-Open your eyes wide, see.

-Paying attention to madmen makes great discoveries.

-Everything great that has been done has been in the name of exaggerated hopes.

-A superior force can demolish the best of arguments.

-While there is life there is hope.

-The Earth does not need new continents, but new men.

-The future does not worry me; what is hard sometimes is the present.

-As long as the heart beats, while the flesh beats, I cannot understand why a being endowed with will is dominated by despair.

-Loneliness, isolation, are painful things and beyond human resistance.

-An energetic man will succeed where an indolent man will vegetate and perish..

-Necessity is the teacher who teaches best and from whom lessons are best learned.

-Reality provides us with facts so romantic that the imagination could not add anything to it..

-And the flash of his charms surrounds her like the rays of the Sun.

-Life, more intense than on the continents, more exuberant, more infinite, spreading throughout all parts of this ocean, element of death for man.

-When a sage announces a purely speculative discovery to the public, there is never enough prudence.

-How many things have been denied one day, only to become reality the next.

-Science is made of mistakes; but they are mistakes that are useful to make, because they guide little by little to virtue.

-Life is worth paying for freedom.

-Trains, like time and tides, don't stop for anyone.

-What a great book you could write with what you know. Another much greater would be written with what is not known.

-With time and thought a good job can be done.

-The future does not worry me; what is hard sometimes is the present.

-We can defy human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

-I am not particularly proud to have written about the automobile, the submarine, the airship, before they were in the domain of scientific realities. When I spoke of them in my books as real things, they were already half made up.

-It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends, and it must be believed that loneliness can quickly destroy reason..

-Man is never perfect, nor sustained.

-The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

-The sea is just the realization of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

-Chess is a game that I was passionate about when I was young, but one day it started to take too long and then I eliminated it..

-The great regret of my life has been the fact that I have never had a place in French literature.

-Go to the dining room, walk around the table always looking at its center, and when you have finished the circular walk, you will have walked around yourself, since the view will have traveled all the points of the dining room. Well, the dining room is the sky, the table is the Earth and you are the Moon.

-Civilization never goes backwards, the law of necessity always forces forward.

-Undoubtedly, under the impression of violent pain we all become polyglots.

-Don't get me too optimistic; I know my country, and many others that surround it. But there are signs, there are signs.

-Civilization never goes backwards, the law of necessity always forces forward.

-The whales and I are old acquaintances, and I wouldn't be easily mistaken.

-Humor had beaten science.

-In the memory of all the dead, chronological differences are erased.

-Those who have the face of rascals have no recourse but to be honest, otherwise they would be arrested.

-Poets are like proverbs: you always find one who contradicts the other.

-What is darkness for you is enlightenment for me.

-Why stoop to being proud of being American or British, if you can boast of being a man.

-Before all teachers, the need is the one that is heard the most, and also the one that teaches the best.

-He must have traveled everywhere, at least in spirit.

-Wherever you go, may fortune follow you.

-Dust is nothing but a thing of the past, and war is as primitive as the human race, somewhat unhappy.

-Although we know sleeping as our best friend, sometimes it is a friend who keeps us waiting..

-We now know that most things in this world can be measured, except the limits of human ambition..

-A scholar must know a little about everything.

-Once the mind allows doubt to enter, the value of the actions performed diminishes, the character changes, we forget the past and fear the future..

-What is done for money is done wrong.

-A true Englishman does not joke when he is talking about something as serious as a bet.

-I would have traded a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water.

-The wisest man could be a blind father.

-It really is very useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

-The soul of flowers is their aroma, and sea flowers, however splendid they may be, have no soul.

-It can be argued that no matter how reckless Americans are, when they are cautious there is a good reason for it.

-Anyway, everything has an end, everything dies, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.

-For an eccentric everything is possible, especially when he is English.

-The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power to speak.

-The fog seems to have killed all the gratitude in the hearts of the browsers.

-In Kiel, as in any other place, a day passes one way and another.

-Ah, sir, live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found. There I do not recognize any teacher! There I am free.

-A minimum well used is enough for everything.

-And while, once walking, you can go so far that going forward is the only option.

-A friend always sacrifices for the other in friendship.

-If your destiny is rare, it is also sublime.

-If living in style is being eccentric, you must confess that there is something good in eccentricity.

-The music is no longer savored, now it is swallowed.

-I ask for nothing more than to live a hundred more years, in order to stay longer in your memory.

-I dream with my eyes open.

-If at any moment we can perish, then at every moment we can be saved.

-I wanted to be lost, but not lost. If I'm lost, they can still find me.

-Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares.

-Ah! Young women and girls, how incomprehensible are their feminine hearts! When they are not the shyest, they are the bravest creatures.

-It is better for us to see the destination we want to reach, than to see the starting point.

-It was obvious that the matter had to be resolved, and the evasions were unpleasant for me..

-Moving is life; and it is good to have the ability to forget the past and kill the present with continuous change.

-We must learn to do everything for others; because that's where the secret of happiness lies.

-When you have the approval of science, you can only hear and obey.

-Understand that you will never be rich if you do not take advantage of it..

-You understand the feeling better when you are in tune with nature. You breathe it in every way!

-It is our homeland! Where should we live! We must die!

-The truth is that inanimate objects around us exert direct pressure on the brain.

-You are never rich enough if you can get even richer.

-The consequence of inventing machines is that men will be devoured by them.

-I feel like we should always put some art in what we do. It's better that way.

-Before the great convulsions of nature, man is powerless.

-Only when you suffer can you really understand.

-Where others have failed, I will not fail.

-One of my goals is to learn more than is absolutely necessary..

-That terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.

-Distance is nothing more than a relative expression, and must end up being reduced to zero.

-Just wait a few minutes, our flashlight will shine and if you like illuminated places, you will be satisfied.

-The future doesn't bother me; sometimes what is difficult is the present.

-The walls were only invented to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.

-There are only a few weapons that serve the head. Isn't this the true organization of the force?

-Yes, forgotten by all the others, but not by us.

-The human imagination soon got caught up in the most ridiculous ichthyological fantasies.

-An evil man is distrustful, and fear is commonly found in those who are capable of inspiring him..

-Our principle is that books, instead of getting moldy behind an iron shelf, should be sold out under the gaze of many readers..

-I am the law and I am the judge.

-Regarding the classification of the fable list, the idea was out of the question..


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