Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norwaywas 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 January 1899
thinking people done
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.
newspapers glad havens
I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
men fool pounds
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.
sports character years
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.
airplane climbing flying
To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
war long people
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.
falling-in-love fall firsts
You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
silly world deserve
Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
long ifs
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.
stupid stupidity arguing
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.