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 More Quotes by Ellis Peters More Quotes From Ellis Peters Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters contentment nature spring Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out. Ellis Peters circles half home Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. Ellis Peters receiving benefits religion A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. Ellis Peters be-prepared faces men There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason. Ellis Peters hate odds reason All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil. Ellis Peters misuse use evil Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly. Ellis Peters folly despair sin Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. Ellis Peters paid ends fall It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions. Ellis Peters wounds illusion men the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you. Ellis Peters spots holiday travel 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 running beautiful thinking 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 regret simple here-i-am 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 reflection men thinking I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. Ellis Peters known christian as roads go, the road home is as good as any. Ellis Peters home Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. Ellis Peters truth-is problem masters Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive! Ellis Peters news ill world You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you. Ellis Peters deny devil saint Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world. Ellis Peters imperfect-world trust too-much You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. Ellis Peters demand half truth
