Quotes from Around the World in Eighty Days
10 notable lines from Jules Verne · 1872
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.
Quotations follow the Michael Glencross translation (Penguin Classics, 2004) — our recommended edition.
Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds! Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty days!
Narrator, the triumphant climax, Chapter XXXVII · trans. Towle A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
Phileas Fogg The unforeseen does not exist.
Phileas Fogg Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and feet.
Narrator, introducing Phileas Fogg, Chapter I · trans. Towle In eighty days, responded Mr. Fogg. So we haven't a moment to lose.
Phileas Fogg, telling Passepartout the plan, Chapter IV · trans. Towle Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Narrator, on what Fogg truly gained, Chapter XXXVII · trans. Towle I see that it is by no means useless to travel — if a man wants to see something new.
Passepartout The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Phileas Fogg, when the rescue looks hopeless, Chapter XIII · trans. Towle All included.
Phileas Fogg, dismissing Stuart's list of dangers, Chapter III · trans. Towle