Ten of My Favourite Ellis Peters Quotes
Love reading? Then it’s likely you will love a good quote from your favourite author. This article covers Ellis Peters’s Top 10 Popular and Famous Quotes that we at Australia Unwrapped have collected from some of his greatest works. Ellis Peters quotes to remember and here you will find 10 of the best. A memorable quote can stay with you and can be used along your journey. Choosing Ellis Peters’s top 10 quotes is not easy, but here they are:
Popular Quotes
“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!”
― Ellis Peters
“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.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones
“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, A Rare Benedictine
“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, The Heretic’s Apprentice
“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, The Heretic’s Apprentice
“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, A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
“All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.”
― Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many
“Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.”
― Ellis Peters
“It’s a kind of arrogance to be so certain you’re past redemption.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones
“The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.”
― Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael’s Penance
10 Famous Quotes by Author Ellis Peters
10 quotes by Ellis Peters there you go! It’s never an easy task picking the best quotations from great writers, so please if you disagree or have more to add, please comment and share your opinions. My 10 greatest Ellis Peters quotes will likely be different from yours; however, that’s the best thing about them, each quote can mean something different to each person. So don’t wait, comment and shares your best Ellis Peters Quote.
One Final Bonus – Ellis Peters Quote
“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, Brother Cadfael’s Penance
