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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea QUOTES

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea QUOTES

1 " The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

2 " Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

3 " We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

4 " If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

5 " Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

6 " I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

7 " God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

8 " The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

9 " The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

10 " The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

11 " Mobilis in Mobile "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

12 " Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

13 " The earth does not want new continents, but new men. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

14 " If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

15 " Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

16 " What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force? "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

17 " The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite'...The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

18 " Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want. "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

19 " No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

20 " With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia? "

― Jules Verne , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea