If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures. - Jules Verne
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
Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling! - Jules Verne
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life. - Jules Verne
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts. - Jules Verne
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. - Jules Verne
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. - Jules Verne
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. - Jules Verne
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten. - Jules Verne
I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory. - Jules Verne
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. - Jules Verne
I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread. - Jules Verne
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! - Jules Verne
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