Ellis Peters 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."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Love, People, Gold, Needs, Relationships, Sense, Value)

"It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Man)

"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Benefits, Nothing, Sense)

"There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Truth, End, Evil)

"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."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Faith, Heaven, Protection, Right)

"Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Truth, End, Value)

"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Truth, Light, Will)

"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."
- Ellis Peters
(Related: Death, Cowards, Expectation, Heroes)