20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Quotes

“...[T]hey shall not eat me without my protesting.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“Where there is compulsion, there is no pleasure.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“I am the law, I am the justice [...] I am the oppressed, and they are the oppressors. It is because of them that everything I loved, cherished, venerated–country, wife, children, parents–perished as I watched! Everything I hate is there! Keep quiet!”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“Gentlemen," he said calmly, "there are two ways of dying in the circumstances in which we are placed." (This puzzling person had the air of a mathematical professor lecturing to his pupils.) "The first is to be crushed; the second is to die of suffocation. I do not speak of the possibility of dying of hunger, for the supply of provisions in the Nautilus will certainly last longer than we shall. Let us, then, calculate our chances.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle...”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“At that moment I heard the vague chords of the organ, a sad harmony under an indefinable melody, veritable wails of a soul that wished to break all terrestrial ties. I listened with all my senses, hardly breathing, plunged like Captain Nemo in one of those musical ecstasies which took him beyond the limits of this world.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea