Favourite lines from Journey to the Centre of the Earth because of analogies I can form with them or due to the impression they have on my imagination:
Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. -Lidenbrock
El mar es el vehículo de una sobrenatural y prodigiosa existencia; es movimiento y amor; es el infinito viviente,
As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.
As for the orchestra,' Quinsonnas continued, 'it has fallen very low since his instrument no longer suffices to feed the instrumentalist! Talk about a trade that's not practical. Ah, if we could use t...
Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts!When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures
A well-used minimum suffices for everything.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager,
Eh bien, monsieur le naturaliste, demanda le Canadien d’un ton légèrement goguenard, et cette Méditerranée?- Nous flottons à sa surface, ami Ned.- Hein! Fit Conseil, cette nuit même?...- Oui, cette nu...
That before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same
Là ou l'on ne peut passer au milieu, il faut passer à coté ou passer dessus !
Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks Yes, sir, of sharks and men.
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this...
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Thus the terrible insurrection was crushed. Tantia Topee, betrayed by his lieutenant Man-Singh, and condemned to death, was executed on the 15th of April, at Sipfee. This rebel, this truly remarkable...
They were then crossing a region that was the scene of massacres and burnings, and where warlike conflicts between the barbarian sultans, contending for their power amid the most atrocious carnage, ne...
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and...