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Ellis Peters Quotes | Quotes said by Ellis Peters

  • Ellis Peters Quote #1

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


  • Ellis Peters Quote #2

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

  • Ellis Peters Quote #3

    Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #4

    Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #5

    Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #6

    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 Quote #7

    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.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #8

    Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

  • Ellis Peters Quote #9

    God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #10

    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 Quote #11

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

  • Ellis Peters Quote #12

    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 Quote #13

    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. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #14

    If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have. - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6

  • Ellis Peters Quote #15

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

  • Ellis Peters Quote #16

    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.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #17

    Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254

  • Ellis Peters Quote #18

    It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #19

    Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #20

    Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. - Pg. 2

  • Ellis Peters Quote #21

    Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #22

    Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael)

  • Ellis Peters Quote #23

    Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #24

    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.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    Perhaps thought really is prayer.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #27

    So, wonder! I also wonder about you, said Cadfael mildly. Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?

  • Ellis Peters Quote #28

    The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.

  • Ellis Peters Quote #29

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

  • Ellis Peters Quote #30

    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.

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