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
justice dinner boards
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
liberty
Liberty is worth paying for.
mind earth said
Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
men action realizing
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
truth boys errors
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
believe cat earth
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
compassion suffering hunger
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
eye animal eight
It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
blow world pressure
I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.
important saws depth
Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.
heaven may buried
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
civilization perfection humanity
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
captains nemo companion
I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
flower sea soul
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!