Journey Through the Impossible Quotes

“First Altorian: What do you mean? We will ask your permission to introduce you to our Academy of Sciences.
Tartelet: The Academy of Sciences?
First Altorian: And then you will be placed in the Museum of Natural History.
Valdemar: You mean ... mounted?
Second Altorian: Oh no. Embalmed.
Tartelet: Embalmed? Just a minute, now.
First Altorian: Oh, later, only after you are dead.
Valdemar: That's very kind of you, sir.
Tartelet: Lead on, then. We'll follow you.”
― Jules Verne, Journey Through the Impossible

“Tartelet: You may be right, Valdemar, but when I came to the home of that young lady's grandmother, poor and hungry and friendless, those two wonderful women took me in, not as a beggar, but as a friend. That's why I followed Miss Eva when she left. And today, when a new and even greater danger stands in her way, should I abandon her, go quietly back to her grandmother, and say, "I deserted your granddaughter, madam. A man can't do as much out of gratitude as this child can do out of love"? No indeed! I would never dare to be so cowardly.”
― Jules Verne, Journey Through the Impossible

“Maston: I have devised another whose projectile can knock down eight hundred men and two hundred horses at a single blow.
Tartelet: That's four men per horse.”
― Jules Verne, Journey Through the Impossible

“Volsius: Imitators! Do you mean to say that there are madmen under the dome of Heaven who are even madder than we are?”
― Jules Verne, Journey Through the Impossible

“Maston: What a man! Even if he is a Frenchman.
Barbicane: The French are a great people, gentlemen. There's only one thing they need to make them the greatest people in the world.
Maston: Yes, only one.
Volsius: And that is ... ?
Maston: They need to be Americans.”
― Jules Verne, Journey Through the Impossible