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
heart sometimes
I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.
eye night light
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
giving way theory
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
describing
But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...
war ocean men
On 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
squares land soul
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
sky clouds mountain
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
mean long solitude
When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.
uncles rope want
Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.
uncles design silence
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
horror scene pens
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
states
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
taken may prudent
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
matter obvious evasion
It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.