I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
JULES VERNEWe 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.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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