It was a soft breathless June morning, with a promise of…

“All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I…

— 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…

— John Buchan

“The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him”

— John Buchan

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

“How will you deal with him?" Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever…

— John Buchan

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

— John Buchan

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge,…

— John Buchan

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

— John Buchan

“But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in”

— John Buchan

“though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I”

— John Buchan

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

— 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…

— John Buchan

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in…

— John Buchan

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

— John Buchan

“Most people are a little scared at new things ... You want a bigger heart to face danger which you go out to look…

— John Buchan