150 Quotes by Elizabeth Peters

Emerson bent a tender look upon his son and heir. ‘Very well, Ramses; Papa will find you all the dead bodies you want.

Lady Baskerville paced up and down wringing her hands. She required only an armful of weedy flowers to make a somewhat mature Ophelia.

She is,′ said Ramses judicially, ’a bloodthirsty little creature. Rather like a kitten – soft and purring and conscienceless and cruel.

What kind of housekeeping do you call this, Peabody?’ I pointed out the injustice of the charge in a few brisk but well-chosen words. Emerson mopped his brow. ‘Pardon my language, Peabody. It has been a trying morning. And now this!

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

Emerson once remarked that if I should encounter a band of Dervishes, five minutes of my nagging would unquestionably inspire even the mildest of them to massacre me...

I object to murder. It’s just a silly girlish prejudice.

Among other emotions – I confess it without shame – was maternal pride. Ramses had displayed the qualities I might have expected from a descendant of the Emersons and the Peabodys. I.

The sun is born again from the womb of night,” he said. “See how the light spreads, remaking the world.