Author of quotes: Jules Verne



Listen, my dear, at first you will serve with us without a salary, and then, if we are satisfied with you, the reward will be doubled.
Listen, my dear, at first you will serve with us without a...
№ 454864   Added MegaMozg 09-07-2023 / 23:30
This serious, phlegmatic and silent man was named Hans Bielke; he appeared on the recommendation of Mr. Friedrickson. That was our future guide. His manners he differed sharply from his uncle, which did not prevent them from easily colliding and quickly agreeing on the price: one was ready to take what he was offered, the other - to give as much as he was required. A deal has never been easier and easier.
№ 422210   Added MegaMozg 06-07-2021 / 07:18
- Where are you going? She asked [Martha].
I pointed my finger at the ground.
- To the cellar? The old maid exclaimed.
"No," I finally said, "even deeper!"
№ 422208   Added MegaMozg 06-07-2021 / 07:12
- However, we will see: I will tear out the mystery of this document and will neither eat nor sleep until I solve it.
"Oh well!" I thought.
- Neither I, Axel, nor you! He continued.
"Damn! I said to myself, "How good it is that I had a snack for two!"
№ 422207   Added MegaMozg 06-07-2021 / 07:09
He was a selfish scientist, a real storehouse of knowledge, but at the slightest attempt to learn something from it, he published a desperate creak - in a word, a miser!
Quote Explanation: About Professor Lidenbrock.
№ 422206   Added MegaMozg 06-07-2021 / 07:06
- Damn! - exclaimed the scientist-geographer. “But I was afraid to be intrusive.
Quote Explanation: Part 1, Chapter 8 «On «Duncan» became one good man more."
№ 422199   Added MegaMozg 06-07-2021 / 06:45
And since John Mangles undertook to teach Robert the naval business, Glenarvan - to be courageous, the Major - cold-blooded, Lady Helen - kind and generous, and Mary Grant - grateful to such teachers, then, obviously, the young Grant had to become an impeccable gentleman.
Quote Explanation: Part 1, chapter 9 "The Strait of Magellan".
№ 422198   Added MegaMozg 06-07-2021 / 06:42
On this very day, about two o'clock in the afternoon, the path of the detachment crossed some road. Naturally, Helnarvan asked the katapac for its name, and, of course, Jacques Paganel answered him:
- This is the road from Yumbel to Los Angeles.
Gannarvan looked at the catapatz.
"Absolutely," he confirmed, and then, turning to the geographer, asked: "Did you, therefore, pass in these parts?"
- Of course! Paganel replied in a serious tone.
- On a mule?
- No, in a chair.
Quote Explanation: Part 1, Chapter 11 «Crossing Chile».
№ 422195   Added MegaMozg 06-07-2021 / 06:33
Just amazing how the same thing from different points of view can be regarded quite differently!
№ 384117   Added MegaMozg 09-12-2019 / 00:02
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Why goods belonging to one, inaccessible to others? If the poor and the already taken a worldly joy, why deny them the opportunity to enjoy Homer and Shakespeare?
Quote Explanation: at a minimum, the subsistence minimum should include a visit to the theater
№ 384116   Added MegaMozg 09-12-2019 / 00:00
This unfortunate inventor was a victim of his own invention. He was killed by one of those terrible shells, which he intended to destroy our city.
№ 384114   Added MegaMozg 08-12-2019 / 23:56
He fell victim to the incredible vanity, for with an idea of autocracy, wanted to control everything.
№ 384113   Added MegaMozg 08-12-2019 / 23:54
Followed by unemployment in the city included poverty, desperation and vices. The shops were deserted - the people crowded to the pub; just another pipe has ceased to smoke in the factory, in the village next door opened a new tavern.
№ 384112   Added MegaMozg 08-12-2019 / 23:52
As all honest people, he was inclined not to believe in evil. He didn't allow the thought that people can be so perverted that it no reason, just out of a tyranny, might be a desire to destroy a city that is the cultural property of all mankind.
№ 383951   Added MegaMozg 05-12-2019 / 09:18
Since the world exists, all great and useful, what happens in it, was founded on the initiative of Germany. Nothing serious and decisive BZ Germany can not happen.
Quote Explanation: Jules Verne predicted the advent of fascism
№ 383950   Added MegaMozg 05-12-2019 / 09:16