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Around the World in Eighty Days quotes
12 quotes from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #103 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”
— Spoken by a character · XIII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?
“Why, you are a man of heart!”
— Spoken by a character · XII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND HIS COMPANIONS VENTURE ACROSS THE INDIAN FORESTS, AND WHAT ENSUED
“Sometimes,” replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; “when I have the time.”
— Phileas Fogg · XII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND HIS COMPANIONS VENTURE ACROSS THE INDIAN FORESTS, AND WHAT ENSUED
The artistic thing is, to unmask honest countenances; it’s no light task, I admit, but a real art.
— Spoken by a character · VI. IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE
“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.”
— Passepartout · IX. IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG
A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager,” replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly. “I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
— Phileas Fogg · III. IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR
“A well-used minimum suffices for everything.”
— Spoken by a character · III. IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR
Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journey around the world in eighty days.
“I’d like to see you do it in eighty days.”
— Spoken by a character · III. IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR
“You have kept London time, which is two hours behind that of Suez. You ought to regulate your watch at noon in each country.”
— Fix · VIII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TALKS RATHER MORE, PERHAPS, THAN IS PRUDENT