The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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