John Buchan
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.Collection: Girl
It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue of idealists. And you do not want a Napoleon . All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Men
Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.Collection: Running
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.Collection: Men
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.Collection: Clothes
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.Collection: Mother
If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.Collection: Laughing
He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.Collection: Firsts
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.Collection: Firsts