Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Around the World in Eighty Days.
Respect and Reputation Quotes
[He] questioned himself whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature. (11.1)
Money Quotes
He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quickly, and sometimes anonymously. (1.4)
Exploration Quotes
"The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago." (3.7)
Time Quotes
He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed. (1.7)
Happiness Quotes
He lived alone, and so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. (...
Chance Quotes
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)