All Nevil Shute Quotes
- To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. Airplane
- The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me. Family
- I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them. Been
- There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today. All
- 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 can… All
- The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money… Create
- You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love. Fall
- I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long,… All
- Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them. Fun
- Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over. All
- It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. Ashes
- 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… Any
- Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this. Been
- 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… Any
- Without work men are utterly undone Inspirational
- You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things. Accept
- 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 may… Anybody
- It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same,… All
- After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that… Aeroplane
- Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in… Aircraft
- 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 me,… Admiralty
- Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it. Aeroplane