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.

Ellis Peters

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

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

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellis Peters

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

Ellis Peters

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Ellis Peters

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Ellis Peters

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.

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters

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Occupation: British Author
Born: September 28, 1913
Died: October 14, 1995
Quotes count: 12

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