“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It’s really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you’ll find there’s not a lot of competition;”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“An American, a soldier of fortune by profession. Wherever there is trouble in the world the Dwights of all nations foregather. There are not very many of them, thirty or forty perhaps, and they are all supremely competent men because the others have been killed.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“We are not like that, we engineers. We are men of understanding and of education, on whom is laid responsibility that men may travel in these aeroplanes as safely as if they were sitting by the well in the cool of the evening.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“Half a thou too small,” he said. “The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it’ld be Right. As it is, it’s Wrong, and you can’t cheat about it.” He smiled again. “Too bad when God gives you the mind of an Inspector, isn’t it?”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“Many evils spring from power,” he said. “Even from the power to do good. All power corrupts, and the intention to do good has little influence on the corruption. Either my words will last after me and be believed by men, or else they won’t. Yet if one thing were required to kill them certainly, it is that my words should be spread after my death by the power of money. No teaching could survive a campaign of paid advertising.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“I still think Connie was a human man, a very, very good one—but a man. I have been wrong in my judgments many times before; if now I am ignorant and blind, I’m sorry, but it’s no new thing. If that should be the case though, it means that I have had great privileges in my life, perhaps more so than any man alive today. Because it means that on the fields and farms of England, on the airstrips of the desert and the jungle, in the hangars of the Persian Gulf and on the tarmacs of the southern islands, I have walked and talked with God.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
“Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.”
― Nevil Shute, quote from Round the Bend
Nevil Shute
Born place: in London, England, The United Kingdom
Born date January 17, 1899
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“Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.”
― Connie Brockway, quote from The Bridal Season
“Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out.
He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this time, Christina,” he said in a furious whisper. “Compliments won’t get me off balance again, my little temptress. I swear to God, if you ever again dismiss me so casually, I’m going to––”
“Oh, it wasn’t a compliment,” Christina interrupted, letting him see her irritation. “How presumptuous of you to think it was. The Crow is our enemy.”
― Julie Garwood, quote from The Lion's Lady
“Me gusta ver cómo se esfuerza por mantenerse sobria y pálida y por parecer fría. En esas ocasiones hay en ella algo tan seductor que desafía la descripción.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, quote from The Key
“الفرق بين اسلامنا و اسلامكم ان اسلامنا لم يقفل باب الاجتهاد، و اسلام بلا اجتهاد يعنى اسلاما بلا عقل”
― Naguib Mahfouz, quote from The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
“the bridge appears when you walk across it—that”
― Marie Howe, quote from What the Living Do: Poems
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