Quotes by John Buchan

John Buchan

“What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?” he asked. “The sense of competence,” was the answer, given without hesitation.

Answers

Given

Happiness

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

Funny

Humor

Running

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Clever

Men

Trying

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

Atheist

Funny

Humorous

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

Fall

Lakes

Sight

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

Merit

Organization

Quality

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

Mankind

Mother

Wife

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

Dust

Firsts

Romance

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

Civilisation

Conspiracy

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

Divine Justice

Law

Together

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Adventure

Albania

Answers

Atheist

Barometer

Believe

Blood

Blue

Book

Brain

Care

Carefulness

Character

Church

Civilisation

Civilization

Classic

Clever

Clothes

Common

Conspiracy

Cowardice

Darkness

Debt

Definitions

Differences

Disaster

Discouragement

Disputes

Divine Justice

Dust

Earth

Education

Emotion

Exercise

Eye

Fall

Fashion

Felt

Fine

Firsts

Fisherman

Fishing

Flesh

Funny

Games

Girl

Given

Giving

Growing Up

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Quotes by John Buchan

John Buchan

“What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?” he asked. “The sense of competence,” was the answer, given without hesitation.

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

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

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

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

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