150 Quotes by Elizabeth Peters

Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women.

God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,” he said bitterly. “We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice...

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

Either the War Office had recruited Ramses - in which case I would have General Spencer's head on a platter - or Ramses had come across something that, in his opinion, merited investigation.... I am never guilty of idle speculation, so I kept an open mind on that. Except that once I caught up with him, I would have Ramses' head on another platter.

The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world.