Quote

As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.

Jules Verne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
Difficulty
Serious
Made
Ferguson
Replied
Difficulties
Overcome
Tone
Overcoming

More quotes by Jules Verne

Image
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
Jules Verne
Image
You are going to visit the land of marvels.
Jules Verne
Image
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Jules Verne
Image
Man is never perfect nor contented.
Jules Verne
Image
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
Jules Verne
Image
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
Jules Verne
Image
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
Jules Verne
Image
What darkness to you is light to me
Jules Verne
Image
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
Jules Verne
Image
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
Jules Verne
Image
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Jules Verne
Image
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne
Image
I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
Jules Verne
Image
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
Jules Verne
Image
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
Jules Verne
Image
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Jules Verne
Image
Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
Jules Verne
Image
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.
Jules Verne
Image
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.
Jules Verne
Image
Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Jules Verne