Ellis Peters Quotes
Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
Ellis Peters
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
Ellis Peters
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
Ellis Peters
You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.
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.
Ellis Peters
All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
Ellis Peters
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
Ellis Peters
If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
Ellis Peters
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
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.
Ellis Peters
A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
Ellis Peters
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
Ellis Peters
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters
Beauty is a perilous gift.
Ellis Peters
There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
Ellis Peters
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
Ellis Peters
Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
Ellis Peters
