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Around the World in 80 Days: Jules Verne’s top 12 quotes on travelling


Jules Vernes’ classic 1873 novel about an Englishman’s bizarre wager to circumnavigate the globe in the ambitious time-frame of 80 days remains an inspiring yarn about getting out there and seeing the world.

While Phileas Fogg himself is possibly the most stoic example of Englishness ever put to paper, his French manservant Passepartout’s enthusiasm reflects the wonder that we all experience when we visit new exotic vistas.

Written at the height of the British Empire, the book offers a snapshot to today’s readers of a very different world, almost alien with its lack of communications technology, let alone planes, and a very English empire upon which the sun never set.

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Articles no less passionate than logical appeared on the question, for geography is one of the pet subjects of the English; and the columns devoted to Phileas Fogg’s venture were eagerly devoured by all classes of readers.



At first some rash individuals, principally of the gentler sex, espoused his cause, which became still more popular when the Illustr

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He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed. (1.7)



Phileas Fogg keeps a strict schedule, and we do mean
strict
. This guy literally chows down at the same time every single day. We wonder what this says about his personality…





"What time is it?" (1.11)



It's time for lunch. Nah, just kidding. How many times are they going to ask this question throughout the novel? Enough that you probably don't want to try to count.





"Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes after eleven, a.m., this Wednesday, October 2nd, you are in my service." (1.12)



What an employer—Phileas documents not just the date, but the time he hires people. Hope Passepartout can handle working for such a precise dude.





"I'd like to see you do it in eighty days." (3.9)



Gauntlet thrown, challenge accepted: Phileas Fogg is so going to take this bet, giving him just another reason to obsessively track time.





"Left London, Wednesday, October 2nd, at 8:45 p.m." (7.7)



Phileas Fogg keeps track of his journey just like a diary, but

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“Two small figures were beating against the rock; the girl had fainted and lay on the the boy's arm. With a last effort Peter pulled her up the rock and then lay down beside her. Even as he also fainted he saw that the water was raising, He knew that they would soon be drowned, but he could do no more.
As they lay side by side a mermaid caught Wendy by the feet, and began pulling her softly into the water. Peter feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back. But he had to tell her the truth.
"We are on the rock, Wendy," he said, "but it is growing smaller. Soon the water will be over it."
She did not understand even now.
"We must go," she said, almost brightly.
"Yes," he answered faintly.
"Shall we swim or fly, Peter?"
He had to tell her.
"Do you think you could swim or fly as far as the island, Wendy, without my help?"
She had to admit she was too tired.
He moaned.
"What is it?" she asked, anxious about him at once.
"I can't help you, Wendy. Hook wounded me. I can neither fly nor swim."
"Do you mean we shall both be downed?"
"Look how the water is raising."
They put their hands over their eyes

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Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers; to bet is in the English temperament. (5.6)



Oh really, Jules Verne? Wanna bet? (Sorry—bad joke. We couldn't resist.)





The trip was being accomplished most successfully, and Passepartout was enchanted with the congenial companion which chance had secured him in the person of the delightful Fix. (9.9)



Oh, Passepartout—he's so gullible. Is Detective Fix really on board the ship because of chance? Shmoop thinks he might be looking for someone in particular…





Looking at the matter from every point of view, it did not seem to him impossible that, by some mistake, the man might have embarked on the
Carnatic
at the last moment. (21.9)



Ever heard the saying, "May fortune favor the foolish"? We're keeping our fingers crossed for Passepartout. Phileas Fogg is counting on fate to get his servant to Yokohama… somehow.





So great had been the expense of his tour, that, even had he won, it would not have enriched him. (35.2)



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