Quotes by : John Buchan

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

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and....

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

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth....

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

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.

The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to....

This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come;....