Ellis Peters quotes

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. (Ellis Peters)
Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. View quote
Ellis Peters
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. View quote
Ellis Peters
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire. View quote
Ellis Peters
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. View quote
Ellis Peters
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals. View quote
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. View quote
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It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption. View quote
Ellis Peters
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. View quote
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions. View quote
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Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. (Ellis Peters)
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil. View quote
Ellis Peters