The Power House Quotes

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

“To spend your days on such work when the world is chockful of amusing things. Life goes roaring by and you only hear the echo in your stuffy rooms.”
― John Buchan, The Power House

“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Satan.”
― John Buchan, The Power House

“يمكن لأكثر الناس سلاماً على الأرض أن يُقاد للقتال.”
― John Buchan, The Power House

“الحضارة تحتاج إلى أكثر من القانون لتتماسك. كما ترى، لا يتساوى الناس فى قبول قوانين الحضارة.”
― John Buchan, The Power House

“كان أفضل زميل فى الدنيا، لكنى وجدت أنى كنت أُسئ فهم شخصيته.”
― John Buchan, The Power House

“الحضارة ستدوم فقط حتى يأتى اتفاق آخر ... ضدها.”
― John Buchan, The Power House

“We were at Glenaicill—six of us—for the duck-shooting, when Leithen told us this story. Since five in the morning we had been out on the skerries, and had been blown home by a wind which threatened to root the house and its wind-blown woods from their precarious lodgment on the hill. A vast nondescript meal, luncheon and dinner in one, had occupied us till the last daylight departed, and we settled ourselves in the smoking room for a sleepy evening of talk and tobacco.”
― John Buchan, The Power-House

“In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.”
― John Buchan, The Power House