John Buchan Quotes

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

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

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

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

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.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

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

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

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

Without humility there can be no humanity.