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Ellis Peters Quotes

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run....

Ellis Peters

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run....

Tags: arrival, attachment, belonging, completion, fullfilment, home, homecoming, homelessness, journey s end, roots

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Ellis Peters

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Tags: crusades, equality, goodness, openmindedness, religion, tolerance

About Author
Edith Mary Pargeter (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics. She is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.

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 q...

Ellis Peters

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 q...

Tags: conduct of life, free will, freedom, giving, life, self determination

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Ellis Peters

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Tags: humanity, saintliness, schadenfreude

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....

Ellis Peters

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....

Tags: judgment, penance, responsibility, self determination

Every Spring is the only Spring, a perpetual astonishment. It bursts upon a man every year, thought Cadfael, contemplating it with delight in spite of all anxieties, as though it had never happened be...

Ellis Peters

Every Spring is the only Spring, a perpetual astonishment. It bursts upon a man every year, thought Cadfael, contemplating it with delight in spite of all anxieties, as though it had never happened be...

What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more. Cadfael, Pg. 255

Ellis Peters

What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more. Cadfael, Pg. 255

Tags: do good

What you do and what you are is what matters.

Ellis Peters

What you do and what you are is what matters.

Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.

Ellis Peters

Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.

Tags: adversity

When a dutiful brother came to relieve him, he went to his bed, and slept as soon as he lay down. He had the gift. There was no profit in laying awake fretting for what would, in any case, have to be...

Ellis Peters

When a dutiful brother came to relieve him, he went to his bed, and slept as soon as he lay down. He had the gift. There was no profit in laying awake fretting for what would, in any case, have to be...

Perhaps thought really is prayer.

Ellis Peters

Perhaps thought really is prayer.

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.

Ellis Peters

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.

Tags: beer, confession, courage, drinking, quietness, reflection, solitude, taverns, thought, withdrawal

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.

Ellis Peters

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.

Tags: fate, mercy, mystery

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Ellis Peters

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Tags: courage, death, life, responsibility

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

Ellis Peters

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

Tags: good and evil, right and wrong

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

Ellis Peters

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

Tags: grief, monastery, prayer, silence

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

Ellis Peters

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

Tags: belief, inspirational, opponent, value

In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.

Ellis Peters

In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.

Tags: duty, inspirational, life

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.

Ellis Peters

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.

Tags: enemies, friends, people

Women want to own a man, and that grows irksome.

Ellis Peters

Women want to own a man, and that grows irksome.