Ellis Peters Quotes

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• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
• All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
• I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
• Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
• 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…
• A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
• What are wits for unless a man uses them?
• Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
• Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
• Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
• 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…
• Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
• 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…
• They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the…
• The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
• 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…
• If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the…
• Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best…
• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
• Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

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