Quotes by John Buchan

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each others throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

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.

If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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