Nevil Shute famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Stupid #Stupidity #Arguing
Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
-- Nevil Shute

#Silly #World #Deserve
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
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
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after itâ€™s all over.
-- Nevil Shute

#War #People #Long
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
-- Nevil Shute

#Airplane #Danger #Triviality
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 #Years
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
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
-- Nevil Shute

#Safety #Pay #Lips
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 #World
Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.
-- Nevil Shute

#Design #Helping #Equations
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
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

#World #Goes On #Said
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
-- Nevil Shute

#Men #Pilots #Tests
It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
-- Nevil Shute

#Ashes
I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
-- Nevil Shute

#Newspapers #Glad
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
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
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
Without work men are utterly undone
-- Nevil Shute

#Men #Undone

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