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The Hippopotamus Pool

Elizabeth Peters

The Last Camel Died at Noon

Elizabeth Peters

The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Elizabeth Peters

The Hippopotamus Pool

Elizabeth Peters

The Last Camel Died at Noon

Elizabeth Peters

The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Elizabeth Peters

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Famous Elizabeth Peters Quotes

“I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)”

Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the Sandbank

Source: Crocodile on the Sandbank

“Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.”

Elizabeth Peters The Falcon at the Portal

Source: The Falcon at the Portal

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”

Elizabeth Peters

“I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)”

Elizabeth Peters The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Source: The Ape Who Guards the Balance

“I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?”

Elizabeth Peters

Source: The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

Elizabeth Peters Quotes

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”

Elizabeth Peters

Source: The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”

Elizabeth Peters book The Mummy Case

Source: The Mummy Case

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

Elizabeth Peters The Curse of the Pharaohs

Source: The Curse of the Pharaohs

“In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)”

Elizabeth Peters The Deeds of the Disturber

Source: The Deeds of the Disturber

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

Elizabeth Peters

Source: Houses of Stone

“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”

Elizabeth Peters

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

Elizabeth Peters

“Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.”

Elizabeth Peters The Last Camel Died at Noon

Source: The Last Camel Died at Noon

“When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.”

Elizabeth Peters

“Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body…”

Elizabeth Peters book Lion in the Valley

Source: Lion in the Valley

“The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.”

Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the Sandbank

Source: Crocodile on the Sandbank

“Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.”

Elizabeth Peters The Serpent on the Crown

Source: The Serpent on the Crown

“The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody”

Elizabeth Peters

“If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask.
-Emerson”

Elizabeth Peters The Last Camel Died at Noon

Source: The Last Camel Died at Noon

“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.”

Elizabeth Peters The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Source: The Ape Who Guards the Balance

“A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“.. he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females… and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.”

Elizabeth Peters The Last Camel Died at Noon

Source: The Last Camel Died at Noon

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