Nevil Shute Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Nevil Shute:

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
~Nevil Shute


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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.
~Nevil Shute


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nevil-shute-quotes/#4c8d57ee

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.
~Nevil Shute


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nevil-shute-quotes/#1d96a941

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nevil-shute-quotes/#2e49de22

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.
~Nevil Shute


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nevil-shute-quotes/#edce3d89

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