Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Vernewas a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1828
CityNantes, France
CountryFrance
land should native
One's native land!?there should one live! there die!
speech cold speed
The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
men order oysters
....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
war yesterday race
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
giving-up needs world
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
london criminals knows
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
firsts surprise worst
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
wall exercise men
External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
engineering skills romance
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
impossible accomplished remains
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
land
You will travel in a Land of Marvels
words-love sentiments
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
reality one-day made
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
travel spirit
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.