Nevil Shute Quotes

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

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

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

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He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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