'The worst of shock cases is that you remember nothing about them afterwards.'Sir Richard Hannay
'When you're dealing with a neurotic woman and a half-witted child and a respectable banker, you can't handle them in the same style.'Sir Richard Hannay
'All my senses converse in the language of the Border hills.'Sir Richard Hannay
'It's a queer business, and the only way to tackle queer businesses is by keeping on a cheerful countenance.'Sir Richard Hannay
'There are folk that believe that there's not very much more that man can do. I'm not of that way of thinking.'Sir Richard Hannay
'We are so apt to see only one side of things. We get a kind of blindness, We forget that a thing can be used in a bad way as well as a good.'Sir Richard Hannay
'A single mind set doggedly at a task can achieve miracles.'Sir Richard Hannay
'Good God, what a world of fools we live in. Why on earth can't people keep their troubles to themselves?'Sir Richard Hannay
'I have never had much politics, but I have always believed in defending my own country and my own race.'Sir Richard Hannay
'Life is full of interruptions and complications.'Sir Richard Hannay