John Buchan Quotes

"But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?"
-John Buchan in Romance quotes.

"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."
-John Buchan in Genius quotes.

"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
-John Buchan in Peace quotes.

"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
-John Buchan

"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."
-John Buchan

"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."
-John Buchan

"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
-John Buchan

"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."
-John Buchan