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

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.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

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.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

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.

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