150 Quotes by Elizabeth Peters

Emerson would thus have the satisfaction of doing what he secretly yearned to do, and the even greater satisfaction of blaming it all on ME.

So I went upstairs, to console the other half of the pair of heartbroken lovers, and a tedious business it was too, when a little common sense on both parts would have settled the matter to the satisfaction of all. With.

Catastrophically precocious’ was a term sometimes applied by those who came upon Ramses unaware.

Why were moral questions so often cloudy, no clear-cut right and wrong?

His blue-and-white striped robe ballooning out in the wind, he rode directly to me and fell off the donkey. Gasping theatrically, he handed me a note and then collapsed face down in the sand. Since the donkey had been doing all the work, I ignored this demonstration. While John bent over the fallen man with expressions of concern I opened the note.

Emerson maintains, justly or unjustly, that all religious leaders are showmen at heart.