Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
JULES VERNEThere is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
JULES VERNEIn the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
JULES VERNEThe 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 VERNEThe earth does not need new continents, but new men.
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
JULES VERNEAn energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
JULES VERNEI 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.
JULES VERNEWith time and thought, one can do a good job.
JULES VERNEOn the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
JULES VERNEHow many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEAll that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
JULES VERNE