It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“By 1948 I was safe on my feet and able to get about quite normally, but I was thirty-four and life was slipping past… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“Until we’re dead, we Service people, the world will always be in danger of another war. We had too good a time in the… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,” he said, “from whence cometh my help.” — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.” — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
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