Elizabeth Peters Quotes

If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.

I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.

I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly.

What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?'

'She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said. 'You know how she is about bones.

A woman’s instinct, I always feel, supercedes logic.

People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill.

His masculinity was only too apparent

I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

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

I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

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?

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

my nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.