John Buchan Quotes

The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used t...

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, ...

If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survi...

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level...

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series...

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend ...

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth...

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the...

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites t...

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has ...

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my pass...