104 Quotes by Nevil Shute

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

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.

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault, and no Government was wise enough to stop us having them that way. But something might have been done with newspapers, if we'd been wise enough.

There are some things about oneself that it’s not very nice to wake up to.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this," he said.The scientist said, "That's absolutely and precisely right.

She had known for some time that his wife and family were very real to him, more real by far than the half-life in a far corner of the world that had been forced upon him since the war.