John Buchan Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Buchan
John Buchan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.
London is like the tropical bush
if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
To spend your days on such work when the world is chockful of amusing things. Life goes roaring by and you only hear the echo in your stuffy rooms.
I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.
The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.