Quotes from book
A Lodge in the Wilderness

A Lodge in the Wilderness

A Lodge in the Wilderness is a 1906 political quasi-novel by the Scottish author John Buchan.


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“The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 22

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“Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 23

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“The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. II, p. 43

John Buchan photo
John Buchan photo
John Buchan photo

“It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. X, p. 268

John Buchan photo
John Buchan photo

“It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. III, p. 83

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“Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. XI, pp. 313–4

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“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”

The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.

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