Ellis Peters Quotes (12 Quotes)

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.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

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

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. Not here - not now.

Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity of all pities that those who lead never learn, and the few wise men among those who follow never quite avail to teach. But faith given and allegiance pledged are stronger than fear ...

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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.

I loved and hated India the pressures of class division and riches and poverty there are devastating, but love predominates. I have two families and scattered friends there, mainly in Delhi, but south also, and wish I had the stamina to tackle it again. Maybe I'll make it some day yet, but it does take stamina.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

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

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.