Edith Pargeter Quotes

• Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

  Edith Pargeter

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• Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

  Edith Pargeter

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• Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

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• I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

  Edith Pargeter

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• It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

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• To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

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• There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

  Edith Pargeter

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• Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

  Edith Pargeter

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• Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

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Edith Pargeter (9)

Birth:	28th September, 1913
Death:	14th October, 1995
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Edith Mary Pargeter, also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English writer. She is well known for her medieval-detective series The Cadfael Chronicles. The Mystery Writers of America gave Pargeter their Edgar Award in 1963 for Death and the Joyful Woman. In 1980, the British Crime Writers Association awarded her the Silver Dagger for Monk's Hood.

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