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
fun games loses
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.
england imminent june peril seemed sent war
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.
best bother danger life prefer since
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.
aircraft crash god men thousand wills
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.
men undone
Without work men are utterly undone
jobs men world
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.
ashes
It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
jobs men today
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
men pilots tests
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
world goes-on said
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.
design helping equations
Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.
nice office long
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?
safety pay lips
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
land light lovely
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.