“Man is never perfect nor contented.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
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Famous Jules Verne Quotes
Source: The Collected Works Of Jules Verne
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”
Source: The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)
Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth
“The wisest man may be a blind father.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
Source: The English at the North Pole
“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
Source: 20,000 leagues under the sea
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”
Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: (Annotated)(Unabridged)
“In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.”
Source: The Mysterious Island
“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”
Source: Around the World in Eighty Days
“Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)
“Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.”
“Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!”
Source: The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Source: Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)