Ellis Peters Quotes

There Is In The End No Remedy But Truth. It Is The One Course That Cannot Be Evil.

Beauty Is A Perilous Gift.

Bitter Though It May Be To Many, Cadfael Concluded, There Is No Substitute For Truth, In This Or Any Case.

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 Have Nothing To Do With Reason. Miracles Contradict Reason, They Strike Clean Across Mere Human Deserts, And Deliver And Save Where They Will. If They Made Sense, They Would Not Be Miracles.

Death, After All, Is The Common Expectation From Birth. Neither Heroes Nor Cowards Can Escape It.

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.

Even A Saint May Take Pleasure, In Retrospect, In Having Been Once Desired

What Are Wits For Unless A Man Uses Them?

Truth, Like The Burgeoning Of A Bulb Under The Soil, However Deeply Sown, Will Make Its Way To The Light.

Youth Is No Less Vulnerable, By The Very Quality It Has Of Making The Heart Ache That Beholds And Has Lost It.

You Cannot Demand Truth, And Then Select Half And Throw The Inconvenient Remainder Away.

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 Alehouses And The Churches, Hugh. In Either A Man Can Be Quiet And Think.