Ellis Peters Quotes

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• Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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  Nature, Spring, Contentment

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.115, Head of Zeus

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• Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

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  Home, Circles, Half

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

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  Evil, Use, Misuse

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.309, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

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  Despair, Sin, Folly

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.1400, Head of Zeus Ltd

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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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  Men, Faces, Be Prepared

  Ellis Peters (2014). “Dead Man's Ransom”, p.210, Head of Zeus

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• You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

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  Truth, Half, Demand

  Ellis Peters (2015). “House of Green Turf”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

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  Home

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.258, Head of Zeus

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• The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

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  Mountain, Today, Tomorrow

  Ellis Peters (2015). “Fallen into the Pit”, p.229, Head of Zeus

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• There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

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  Hate, Odds, Reason

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3071, Head of Zeus Ltd

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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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  Fall, Ends, Paid

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• Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

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  Thinking, Passing, Blessedness

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.815, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

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  Devil, Saint, Deny

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.607, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

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  Men, Dedication, Giving

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.62, Head of Zeus

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• Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

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  Trust, Imperfect World, Too Much

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.492, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

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  Religion, Receiving, Benefits

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Hermit Of Eyton Forest”, p.58, Head of Zeus

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• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

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  Men, Illusion, Wounds

  Ellis Peters (2015). “The House Of Green Turf”, p.67, Head of Zeus

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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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  Christian, Known

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Leper Of Saint Giles”, p.212, Head of Zeus

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• The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

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  Talking, Voice, Ears

  Ellis Peters (2014). “Brother Cadfael's Penance”, p.68, Head of Zeus

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• Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

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  News, World, Ill

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Pilgrim Of Hate”, p.223, Head of Zeus

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• the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

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  Travel, Holiday, Spots

  Ellis Peters (2015). “Flight of a Witch”, p.207, Open Road Media

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• 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 away.

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  Giving Up, People, Enemy

  Ellis Peters (2015). “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• 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 am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

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  Regret, Simple, Here I Am

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3605, Head of Zeus Ltd

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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 eternity.

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  Brother, Soul, Elbows

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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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 as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

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  Men, Thinking, Names

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Heretic's Apprentice”, p.91, Head of Zeus

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• Integrity expects integrity.

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  Integrity

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.277, Head of Zeus

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