Around the World in Eighty Days

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Jules Verne

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Chapter 1 Quotes

Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg
Page Number: 4
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Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relative or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. He lived alone in his house in Saville Row, whither none penetrated…He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly midnight, only to retire at once to bed.

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg
Page Number: 4
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Chapter 2 Quotes

“Ah, we shall get on together, Mr. Fogg and I! What a domestic and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don’t mind serving a machine.”

Related Characters: Jean Passepartout (speaker), Phileas Fogg
Related Symbols: Clocks
Page Number: 8
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Chapter 3 Quotes

“The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago. And that is why the search for this thief will be more likely to succeed.”

Related Characters: Gauthier Ralph (speaker), Phileas Fogg, Andrew Stuart, John Sullivan, Samuel Fallentin, Thomas Flanagan
Page Number: 10
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Chapter 8 Quotes

“I see how it is,” said Fix. “You have kept London time, which is two hours behind that of Suez. You ought to regulate your watch at noon in each country.”

“I regulate my watch? Never!”

“Well then, it will agree with the sun.”

“So much the worse for the sun, monsieur. The sun will be wrong, then!”

Related Characters: Jean Passepartout (speaker), Detective Fix (speaker), Phileas Fogg
Related Symbols: Clocks
Page Number: 21-22
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Chapter 9 Quotes

“Very curious, very curious,” said Passepartout to himself, on returning to the steamer. “I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.”

Related Characters: Jean Passepartout (speaker), Phileas Fogg
Page Number: 26
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Chapter 11 Quotes

But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty
Page Number: 30
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Passepartout, on waking and looking out, could not realize that he was actually crossing India on a railway train. The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove, and pepper plantation, while the steam curled in spiral around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which were seen picturesque bungalows, viharis (sort of abandoned monasteries), and marvelous temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architecture.

Related Characters: Jean Passepartout
Page Number: 38
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Chapter 12 Quotes

“Suppose we save this woman.”

“Save the woman, Mr. Fogg!”

“I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that.”

“Why, you are a man of heart!”

“Sometimes,” replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; “when I have the time.”

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg (speaker), Sir Francis Cromarty (speaker), Jean Passepartout, Aouda, The Guide, Kiouni
Page Number: 38
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Chapter 13 Quotes

As for Passepartout, he was ready for anything that might be proposed. His master’s idea charmed him; he perceived a heart, a soul, under that icy exterior. He began to love Phileas Fogg.

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, Aouda, Sir Francis Cromarty, The Guide, Kiouni
Page Number: 39
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“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg (speaker), Jean Passepartout, Aouda, Sir Francis Cromarty, The Guide, Kiouni
Page Number: 41
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Chapter 14 Quotes

What would these divinities think of India, anglicized as it is to-day, with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges, frightening the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its banks, and the faithful dwelling along its borders?

Page Number: 46
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Chapter 19 Quotes

Passepartout wandered, with his hands in his pockets, towards the Victoria port, gazing as he went at the curious palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets. Hong Kong seemed to him not unlike Bombay, Calcutta, and Singapore, since, like them, it betrayed everywhere the evidence of English supremacy.

Related Characters: Jean Passepartout
Page Number: 60
Explanation and Analysis:

“Mr. Fix,” he stammered, “even should what you say be true—if my master is really the robber you are searching for—which I deny—I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him—not for all the gold in the world. I come from a village where they don’t eat that kind of bread!”

Related Characters: Jean Passepartout (speaker), Phileas Fogg, Detective Fix
Page Number: 64
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Chapter 22 Quotes

Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything. The Frenchman felt himself as much along among them as if he had dropped down in the midst of Hottentots.

Related Characters: Jean Passepartout
Page Number: 75
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Chapter 30 Quotes

Aouda returned to a waiting-room, and there she waited alone, thinking of the simple and noble generosity, the tranquil courage of Phileas Fogg. He had sacrificed his fortune, and was now risking his life, all without hesitation, from duty, in silence.

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, Aouda
Page Number: 106
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Chapter 32 Quotes

Phileas Fogg did not betray the last disappointment; but the situation was a grave one. It was not at New York as at Hong Kong, nor with the captain of the Henrietta as with the captain of the Tankadere. Up to this time money had smoothed away every obstacle. Now money failed.

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg, Captain Andrew Speedy
Page Number: 114
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Chapter 35 Quotes

“I pity you, then, Mr. Fogg, for solitude is a sad thing, with no heart to which to confide your griefs. They say, though, that misery itself, shared by two sympathetic souls, may be borne with patience.”

Related Characters: Aouda (speaker), Phileas Fogg
Page Number: 125
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Chapter 37 Quotes

Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journey around the world in eighty days. To do this he had employed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading vessels, sledges, elephants. The eccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his marvelous qualities of coolness and exactitude. But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?

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

Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

Related Characters: Phileas Fogg, Aouda
Page Number: 130
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