Quotes by Nevil Shute

About Nevil Shute:

Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career, and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.
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Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

Nevil Shute

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 with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault, and no Government was wise enough to sto...

Nevil Shute

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

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

Nevil Shute

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

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

Nevil Shute

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 it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

Nevil Shute

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

Nevil Shute

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

Nevil Shute

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 a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Nevil Shute

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

Nevil Shute

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, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.

Nevil Shute

Author Bio

  • NameNevil Shute
  • DescriptionBritish racing driver
  • BornJanuary 17, 1899
  • DiedJanuary 12, 1960
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAerospace Engineer; Engineer; Author; Novelist