Elizabeth Peters

“(Romanticism is not a quality I despise, but it is inconvenient in a butler.)”

— Elizabeth Peters

“The man had no more romance in his soul than a codfish.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...”

— Elizabeth Peters

“For some reason his parents had a low opinion of his common sense.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“There is no creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat...”

— Elizabeth Peters

“semaphored warning as well as I could. He took the hint.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“moon dipped low over the dark outlines of the mountains, and the sable sky blazed with stars. There”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Selim, you will speak with your kin and your friends in Gurneh; perhaps some of them will respond to direct threats--questions, I…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Someone was certainly guilty of something, however, and it behooved us to take all possible precautions.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to…

— Elizabeth Peters

“The mountains were rough amethysts, against a sky like a giant stage backdrop—layers of gauzy scarlet and gold and amber, lit from…

— Elizabeth Peters

“The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Fists and rocks and clubs can do a limited amount of harm, but a gun is entirely different. It makes a weak…

— Elizabeth Peters

“...I felt obligated by friendship as well as duty to make certain they were comfortably housed. Since men seem to measure comfort…

— Elizabeth Peters

“I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged…

— Elizabeth Peters

“I felt about him as I might feel about a friendly, dimwitted dog that had decided to move in with us. He…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Either the War Office had recruited Ramses - in which case I would have General Spencer's head on a platter - or…

— Elizabeth Peters

“You don't sound like a librarian," she said. "I'm on vacation," Jacqueline laughed. "Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there?…

— Elizabeth Peters

“You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration. 'I…

— Elizabeth Peters

“He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, 'I love you, Mother.' He took my hand and kissed it, and folded…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Emerson abandoned irony for blunt and passionate speech. 'This war has been a monumental blunder from the start! Britain is not solely…

— Elizabeth Peters

“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent.…

— Elizabeth Peters

“He smiled affably at the burglar, a burly fellow whom he continued to hold with one hand, as easily as if he…

— Elizabeth Peters

“The room was so neat and tidy it made me feel quite depressed...I do not allow myself to repine about what cannot…

— Elizabeth Peters

“They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine.…

— Elizabeth Peters

“You know how your eyes can deceive you at times--how a group of shapes and shadows can take on a certain form…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Stop," he ordered, in a low but compelling voice. "Do not take another step, or I fire! Dash it," he added vexedly,…

— Elizabeth Peters

“...DAMNATION!' No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Burckhardt fumbled through his notes. “Dakin and”

— Elizabeth Peters

“The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“which he needs time and privacy. What better way of keeping us in Cairo,”

— Elizabeth Peters

“Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma’am. Like, an emergency, you know.” Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted…

— Elizabeth Peters