Quote

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

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
Best
Better
Firsts
First
Things
Reserve
Reserves
Surprise
Worst

More quotes by 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
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
Image
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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
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
Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
Jules Verne
Image
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
Jules Verne
Image
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.
Jules Verne
Image
What darkness to you is light to me
Jules Verne
Image
Man is never perfect nor contented.
Jules Verne
Image
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
Jules Verne
Image
Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
Jules Verne
Image
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
Jules Verne
Image
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
Jules Verne
Image
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
Jules Verne
Image
There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
Jules Verne
Image
I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
Jules Verne
Image
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
Jules Verne
Image
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
Image
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
Jules Verne