“Ogni uomo in fondo al cuore crede di essere un investigatore nato.”
da La casa del potere, 1916, cap. 2
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da La casa del potere, 1916, cap. 3
“Un ateo è un uomo che non ha mezzi invisibili di sostentamento.”
parlando al Law Society of Upper Canada, 21 febbraio 1936; pubblicato in Canadian Occasions, 1940, p. 201
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“He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.”
Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 58
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)
“I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.”
A play on words commonly used referring to vagrants or paupers as having "no visible means of support" financially, speaking to the Law Society of Upper Canada, (21 February 1936); published in Canadian Occasions (1940), p. 201. Buchan's source for this definition remains unknown. The witticism was repeated by Harry Emerson Fosdick in his On Being a Real Person (1943), ch. 1, with due acknowledgement to Buchan, and was again used by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in Look magazine (December 14, 1955). The credit for this line is therefore often wrongly given to Fosdick or to Sheen. Credit has also been given to the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862-1950).
Canadian Occasions (1940)
Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 241
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)
“What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.”
Origine: Midwinter (1923), Ch. X
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The Path of the King
Origine: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. VIII "The Hidden City"
John Buchan
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The Power-House
Origine: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"
Augustus (1937)
Memory Hold-The-Door (1940)
“The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.”
"The Wise Years", The Moon Endureth (1912)
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The Power-House
Origine: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"
“Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.”
Origine: Midwinter (1923), Ch. X
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Salute to Adventurers
Origine: Salute to Adventurers (1915), Ch. 3 "The Canongate Tollbooth"
But I could see a hint of fear in his eyes.
Space (1912)
“Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.”
John Buchan
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The Path of the King
Origine: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", I
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The Power-House
Origine: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"
“The best prayers have often more groans than words.”
This has also been attributed to Buchan, but is again from John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer.
Misattributed
Space (1912)
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The Power-House
Origine: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 1 "Beginning of the Wild-Goose Chase"
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A Lodge in the Wilderness
Origine: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. III, p. 69
“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”
Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI (12 May 1937)
This has similarly been attributed to Buchan, but is actually a misrendering of a sentence from the first paragraph of John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer. Bunyan's original sentence reads: "It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled."
Misattributed
Origine: Midwinter (1923), Ch. I
