Top 15 John Buchan Quotes

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

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

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

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

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

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

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

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

I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

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

But the big courage is the cold-blooded kind, the kind that never lets go even when you're feeling empty inside, and your blood's thin, and there's no kind of fun or profit to be had, and the trouble's not over in an hour or two but lasts for months and years.

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

It was a soft breathless June morning, with a promise of sultriness later...