Nevil Shute Quotes

• You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

  Nevil Shute

  Stupid, Stupidity, Arguing

  Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”

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• 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 keep on doing it as long as we can.

  Nevil Shute

  Long, Ifs

  Nevil Shute (1957). “On the beach”

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• Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

  Nevil Shute

  Silly, World, Deserve

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

  Nevil Shute

  War, Long, People

  Nevil Shute (2010). “Requiem for a Wren”, p.246, Random House

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• You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

  Nevil Shute

  Falling In Love, Fall, Firsts

  Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”

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• 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 with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  Nevil Shute

  Sports, Character, Climbing

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• 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

  Men, Fool, Pounds

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

  Nevil Shute

  Airplane, Climbing, Flying

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

  Nevil Shute

  Ashes

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• 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.

  Nevil Shute

  Fun, Games, Knows

  Nevil Shute (1960). “On the Beach”

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• 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, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

  Nevil Shute

  Goes On, World, Ends

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• 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 by their work.

  Nevil Shute

  Jobs, Men, Proud

  Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”

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• I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

  Nevil Shute

  Newspapers, Glad, Havens

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

  Nevil Shute

  Jobs, Men, Today

  Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”

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• 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 be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

  Nevil Shute

  Thinking, People, Done

  Nevil Shute (1991). “A Town Like Alice”

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• Without work men are utterly undone

  Nevil Shute

  Men, Undone

  Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”

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• Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

  Nevil Shute

  Design, Helping, Equations

  Nevil Shute (2010). “Stephen Morris”, p.36, Random House

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• The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

  Nevil Shute

  Men, Pilots, Tests

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

  Nevil Shute

  Safety, Pay, Lips

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• Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

  Nevil Shute

  Light, Land, Lovely

  Nevil Shute (1958). “The RAINBOW and the ROSE”

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• I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

  Nevil Shute

  Nice, Office, Long

  Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”

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