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
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.
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.
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.
men undone
Without work men are utterly undone
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.
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.