The Power House (Sir Edward Leithen, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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 (Sir Edward Leithen, #1)

3 " 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 (Sir Edward Leithen, #1)

5 " يمكن لأكثر الناس سلاماً على الأرض أن يُقاد للقتال. "

― John Buchan , The Power House (Sir Edward Leithen, #1)

7 " كان أفضل زميل فى الدنيا، لكنى وجدت أنى كنت أُسئ فهم شخصيته. "

― John Buchan , The Power House (Sir Edward Leithen, #1)

9 " 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 (Sir Edward Leithen, #1)