Quotes by
Jules Verne |
1826-1905 , French writer
French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always very well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.
He has sometimes been called the “Father of Science Fiction”.
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Quotations
| • | It is only when you suffer that you really understand. 7 |
| • | War, as we know, was for a long time the surest and fastest vehicle of civilization. 6 |
| • | Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. 6 |
| • | Anything you can imagine you can make real. 6 |
| • | When a journey begins badly, it seldom ends well. 5 |
| • | I dream with my eyes open. 4 |
| • | Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. 4 |
| • | The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. 4 |
| • | Nothing great has happened that is not exaggerated hope. 2 |
| • | It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise. 2 |
| • | Women never intervene in my novels simply because they would talk all the time and the others would have nothing more to say. 1 |
| • | If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. 1 |
| • | I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. 1 |
| • | We 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. 1 |
| • | An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet. 1 |
| • | Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important. 1 |
| • | I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word “love” frightens me. 1 |
| • | Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. 1 |
| • | An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. 1 |
| • | What you do for money you do badly. 1 |
| • | We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. 1 |
| • | Look with all your eyes, look. 1 |
| • | The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. 1 |
| • | Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. 1 |
| • | All that is impossible remains to be accomplished. 1 |
| • | Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. 1 |
