Quotes by : Ellis Peters

There's an art in every labour.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any....

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously....

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been....

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that....

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret,....

The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice....

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves....