Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters
Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM, also known by her nom de plume 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. She is well known for her medieval-detective series The Cadfael Chronicles...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 September 1913
talking voice ears
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
men thinking reflection
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.
giving-up people enemy
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.
may bitter cases
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
believe miracle desert
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.
problem truth-is masters
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
courage truth evil
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
beauty
Beauty is a perilous gift ...
despair sin folly
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
years people gold
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
heaven have-faith protection
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.
thinking passing blessedness
Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
may retrospect saint
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
news world ill
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!