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. 6 |
| • | Anything you can imagine you can make real. 5 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | War, as we know, was for a long time the surest and fastest vehicle of civilization. 5 |
| • | When a journey begins badly, it seldom ends well. 4 |
| • | The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. 3 |
| • | Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. 3 |
| • | I dream with my eyes open. 3 |
| • | Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. |
| • | All that is impossible remains to be accomplished. |
| • | Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Look with all your eyes, look. |
| • | We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. |
| • | It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise. |
| • | What you do for money you do badly. |
| • | An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. |
| • | Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. |
| • | I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word “love” frightens me. |
| • | Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important. |
| • | An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet. |
| • | 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. |
| • | I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. |
| • | If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. |
| • | Nothing great has happened that is not exaggerated hope. |
| • | Women never intervene in my novels simply because they would talk all the time and the others would have nothing more to say. |
