Top 82 Quotes by Jules Verne

About Jules Verne

These are some quotes by French author Jules Verne Author, who lived between February 8, 1828 and March 24, 1905.

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

Jules Verne

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

Jules Verne

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

Jules Verne

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Jules Verne

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. 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.

Jules Verne

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

Jules Verne

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

Jules Verne

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Jules Verne

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

Jules Verne

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