150 Quotes by Elizabeth Peters

The mountains were rough amethysts, against a sky like a giant stage backdrop – layers of gauzy scarlet and gold and amber, lit from behind by mammoth spotlights.

Goodness, what a nasty suspicious mind the boy has, I thought. He must have got it from me.

What’s a little hot water, when the cause is just?′ demanded Emerson, who might be said to have spent most of his life up to his neck in boiling liquid.

People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill.

I was glad Emerson was with me, and even happier that he had not suggested I remain behind. In this, as in all our adventures, we were equal partners. Few men could have accepted that arrangement. Emerson is a remarkable man. But then, if he had not been a remarkable man, I would not have married him.

I expect Mother is feeling rather wretched just now. She’s come smack up against prejudices she never knew existed because they were buried so deep.

I do wish you would not be so precipitate; just look at you, you are bleeding all over the antiquities.

I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

Papa, I would like to attend de funeral.’ ‘Why on earth would you want to do that?’ Emerson asked. ‘Dere is a variety of folktale dat claims dat de murderer is drawn to de funeral services of his victim. I suspect dat is pure legend, but a truly scientific mind does not dismiss a t’eory simply because it – ’ ‘Ramses, I am surprised.