Ellis Peters Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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.
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.
Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.
He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.
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.
Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. - Pg. 2
Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.
Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly.
The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.
Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254
Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?