10 Best John Buchan Quotes And Sayings

“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves” – John Buchan

“Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.” – John Buchan

“To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.” – John Buchan

“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.” – John Buchan

“Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.” – John Buchan

“This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.” – John Buchan

“I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.” – John Buchan

“The promise had not failed her.. She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear.. Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.” – John Buchan

“A great storm destroys much that is precious, but it may also clear the air and blow down trees which might have been obscuring the view and making our life stuffy, and reveal in our estate possibilities of development that we had not thought of.” – John Buchan

“Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.” – John Buchan