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Nevil Shute Quotes

Nevil Shute Norway was 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, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.

✵ 17. January 1899 – 12. January 1960
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Works

Round the Bend
Round the Bend
Nevil Shute
On the Beach
Nevil Shute
Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris
Nevil Shute
Round the Bend
Round the Bend
Nevil Shute
On the Beach
Nevil Shute
Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris
Nevil Shute
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Famous Nevil Shute Quotes

“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

Of the R100 engineers
Slide Rule, p. 66

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

Nevil Shute book Round the Bend

Source: Round the Bend

“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.”

Nevil Shute book On the Beach

Source: On the Beach

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

Nevil Shute book Stephen Morris

Rawdon, the aircraft designer, to Morris, his aspiring protege.
Stephen Morris, ch. 3, p. 41 (1923, published posthumously in 1961)

“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.”

Nevil Shute

Of Stephen Morris
Pilotage, ch. 5, p. 203

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