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....

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the....

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

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

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

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....

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