Quotes by Ellis Peters

• Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
• 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.
• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
• Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
• There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
• 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.
• Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
• Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.