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

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

— Elizabeth Peters

“His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Burckhardt fumbled through his notes. “Dakin and”

— Elizabeth Peters

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

— Elizabeth Peters

“She is fiercely protective of all those she loves, Emerson. She would take your part just as vigorously if someone were unkind…

— Elizabeth Peters

“Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore…

— Elizabeth Peters

“The secret of happiness is to enjoy the moment, without allowing unhappy memories or fear of the future to shadow the shining…

— Elizabeth Peters

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

— Elizabeth Peters

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

— Elizabeth Peters

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

— Elizabeth Peters

“Can't you ever stop joking?" "No, why should I? Laughter is one of the two things that make life worthwhile. Aren't you…

— Elizabeth Peters

“intervals of munching and mumbling as she crammed food into her mouth. I did not blame Lady Baskerville for her precipitate departure”

— 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

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

— Elizabeth Peters

“God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,” he said bitterly. “We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even…

— Elizabeth Peters

“As our patient beasts plodded across the sand, I allowed Emerson to remain a few feet ahead, a position he much enjoys…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“Eavesdropping, Mother?' Ramses inquired. 'It is a shameful habit, but cursed useful,' I said, quoting something he had once said, and was…

— Elizabeth Peters

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

— Elizabeth Peters

“I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every…

— Elizabeth Peters