Phileas Fogg Quotes

As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call “repose in action,” a quality of those who act rather than talk.

If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman.

The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.

A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

A well-used minimum suffices for everything.

We are going round the world.

Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club.

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.

If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.

Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment?

Solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs.

Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!