Quote #55

The promise had not failed her. . . . She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear . . . 'Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.'

More from John Buchan

  1. Every wife is like Mary the Blessed and may bear a saviour of mankind. The road is long, but the ways of Heaven are sure.
  2. Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.
  3. Generations follow, oblivious of the high beginnings, but there is that in the stock which is fated to endure. The sons and daughters blund…
  4. The law and the constitution are like a child's pants. They've got to be made wider and longer as the child grows so as to fit him. If they…
  5. The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the wor…
  6. If the Lord sends us war, we have got to face it like men, but God forbid we should manufacture war, and use it as an escape from our domes…
  7. We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.
  8. Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

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