# Quote — Nevil Shute, No Highway

> Airline stewardesses are not chosen for their repellent qualities, and Miss Corder was a very charming girl.

- Author: [Nevil Shute](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute.md)
- Book: [No Highway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway.md)
- Page: 68
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute#No_Highway_(1948)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/airline-stewardesses-are

## More from this book

> "If you're going to make your life in a new country you should go before you're twenty-five. After that you start to get associations, little grooves and anchors, that make it difficult to change."

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/if-youre-going.md)

> He was like a little boy let loose in a toy shop, uncertain which of the attractive treasures to pick up first.

p. 270 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/he-was-like.md)

> She did not understand what all that meant, but it was evidently something very near his heart, and so she said, "How splendid!"

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/she-did-not.md)