Jules Verne Quotes


An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.


Citations

Verne, Jules. The Mysterious Island. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston, Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1876.

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Jules Verne
Jules Verne
  • Born: February 8, 1828
  • Died: March 24, 1905
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Playwright

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).