Quotes from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Besides," said Kennedy, "the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swallowed by their own machines. I've always thought that the last day will be brought about by some colossal boiler heated to three thousand atmospheres blowing up the world."
"And I bet the Yankees will have had a hand in it," said Joe.”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“The man who was born to be hung will never be drowned!”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“If savages had the ways of gentlemen, where would be the difference?”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“la detinée les éloigna parfois, mais la sympathie les réunit toujours”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

“là ou l'on ne peut passer au milieu, il faut passer à coté ou passer dessus !”
― Jules Verne, quote from Five Weeks in a Balloon

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