"It takes a lot to wound a man…" — Ellis Peters
"It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions."
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24 Quotes by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters has 24 quotes on this site.
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is…
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in…
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
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Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was…
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
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More Illusions Quotes
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
— Giotto di Bondone
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality,…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
— Taylor Caldwell
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy…
— Paul Cezanne
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
— Jack Kornfield
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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy…
— Barry Lopez
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Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and…
— Sarah McLachlan
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I…
— Joni Mitchell
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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