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 …

- Nevil Shute

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

- Nevil Shute

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

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

- Nevil Shute

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

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

- Nevil Shute

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

- Nevil Shute

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

- Nevil Shute

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

- Nevil Shute