Jules Verne Quotes (65 quotes)

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„Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.“
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„The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.“
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„So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.“
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„Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.“
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„It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.“
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„Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!“
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„The wisest man may be a blind father.“
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„Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.“
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„One's native land! There should one live! There die!“
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„Man is never perfect nor contented.“
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„It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.“
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„It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.“
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„It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.“
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„It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.“
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„Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.“
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„Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?“
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„A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.“
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Jules Verne
Author born: February 08, 1828
Author died: March 24, 1905
Nationality: French
Author Profession: Author

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