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
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I loved and hated India; the pressures of class division and riches and poverty there are devastating, but love predominates. I have two families and scattered friends there, mainly in Delhi, but south also, and wish I had the stamina to tackle it again. Maybe I'll make it some day yet, but it does take stamina.
ambition drunk ground men nor power recognise stop
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. Not here - not now.
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Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity of all pities that those who lead never learn, and the few wise men among those who follow never quite avail to teach. But faith given and allegiance pledged are stronger than fear ...
nature spring contentment
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
home circles half
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.
home
as roads go, the road home is as good as any.
receiving benefits favors
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
integrity
Integrity expects integrity.
despair sin folly
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
trust imperfect-world too-much
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
truth half demand
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
heart quality youth
Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
devil saint deny
You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.
news world ill
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!