The quotations of

Jules Verne

French writer

1828–1905

10 quotes, most often on Freedom, Risk and Power.

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.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Nature
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Freedom
- Power
Ah! sir, live⁠—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Freedom
I am the law, and I am the judge! I am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part Two, Chapter XXIIn context
- Justice
- Power
I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Character
- Freedom
A coral tomb makes a quiet grave; and I trust that I and my comrades will find no other.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Life & Death
The unforeseen does not exist
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter IIIIn context
- Risk
The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter IIIIn context
- Change
- Technology
A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter IIIIn context
- Risk
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Happiness
- Love

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