Ellis Peters Quotes
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Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
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You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
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The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
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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.
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as roads go, the road home is as good as any.
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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
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In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
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Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
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Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.