Nevil Shute Quotes

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

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.

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.