John Buchan Quotes (20 Quotes)


    The best prayers have often more groans than words.

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

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

    Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

    But some love not the method of your first Romance they count it, throw't away as dust If I should meet with such, what should I say Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay


    You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

    Without humility there can be no humanity.

    'What would you call the highest happiness' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.

    The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

    Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

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

    An atheist is a man without any invisible means of support.

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

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

    Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

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

    He who would valiant be against all disaster let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

    Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

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

    Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.


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