Top 100 Ellery's Quotes
#1. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing
#3. The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
William Ellery Channing
#5. The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
William Ellery Channing
#6. A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
William Ellery Channing
#7. Contrary to popular belief, most detectives couldn't detect a heartbeat on a speed addict, but you never know when you might be up against the next Ellery Queen.
Simon Kernick
#8. You don't understand; this girl's different. She's beautiful, kind, giving, sweet, strong, stubborn, and quite a smart ass."
Connor Black's thoughts on Ellery Lane
Sandi Lynn
#9. My gut is telling me is that this is where I'm supposed to be. It's like I left my dreams in a jar on a shelf in my childhood closet, and now I only need to reach up and open the lid so they can come true.
Ellery Adams
#10. Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
#11. The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
#12. threw me off guard." The chief's eyes crinkled
Ellery Adams
#13. There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.
Ellery Adams
#14. Mrs. Dower was gray. Her clothes, her hair, and the cloud above her head were all a shade of dark gray. With every breath she seemed to expel an invisible vapot of gloom.
Ellery Adams
#16. Betty had her crocheting out again. The morning light winked off her needles and Olivia recognized that she was making a baby blanket.
Ellery Adams
#17. Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.
William Ellery Channing
#19. And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. I love you, too.
Lauren DeStefano
#20. Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
Lauren DeStefano
#22. Draiocht.
It's the Gaelic word for magic That is what you are, Ella Mae. You are Other. You are magical.
Ellery Adams
#23. Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
William Ellery Channing
#24. The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
#26. The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing
#27. It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.
Ellery Queen
#28. My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
William Ellery Channing
#31. Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.
Ellery Adams
#32. It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing
#33. The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
William Ellery Channing
#34. In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
William Ellery Channing
#36. There could be a trail of dead bodies from here to Arkansas.
Ellery Adams
#37. The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing
#38. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - WALT DISNEY
Ellery Adams
#39. Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
William Ellery Channing
#40. Holding that memory snugly against my heart, I realized that I wasn't sad anymore. I was determined. I had to get through this- whatever it took- for Quin.
Ellery A. Kane
#41. One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.
William Ellery Channing
#42. How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean - split lengthwise - in a jar and store in a dark place for 2 days. Strain rum using cheesecloth. Pour and enjoy.
Ellery Adams
#44. I can't get her out of my mind. She's all I keep thinking about both day and night. I haven't been
able to concentrate on anything else. I've cancelled all my dates because I only want to see Ellery."
Connor Black's thought on Ellery Lane.
Sandi Lynn
#45. If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Ellery Adams
#47. No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
William Ellery Channing
#48. Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.
George Ellery Hale
#50. People say write what you know, but I say write about what makes your blood race. Write about that, and your words will become sails filled with a strong wind.
Ellery Adams
#51. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
#53. In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.
Ellery Sedgwick
#54. The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
William Ellery Channing
#55. If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.
Ellery Queen
#60. Hey, Connor! Sorry I must have butt-dialed you. So, do you want to tell me how it felt being on my ass?" she laughed.
Ellery Black's BFF and her jokes.
Sandi Lynn
#61. The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
William Ellery Channing
#62. Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
William Ellery Channing
#64. God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
#65. He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of stillness to counteract all outward evidence of surprise, fear, anything.
Ellery Queen
#66. Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
William Ellery Channing
#68. An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing
#69. Blue doesn't desbribe loss. Grief robs the world of color. Turns it heavy and gray.
Ellery Adams
#70. Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
William Ellery Channing
#71. Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
William Ellery Channing
#73. We beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Ellery Adams
#74. You're worth three of these other retards that I have working for me," Mr. Fletcher said. For a moment, he'd been flattered; then he realized he'd just been given the value of three retards.
T. Ellery Hodges
#75. Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.
Lauren DeStefano
#76. The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.
Ellery Queen
#77. Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.
Ellery Queen
#78. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.
William Ellery Channing
#79. He ran his hand down the surface and felt some imperfections in the steel near the center. He flipped it over to see that the alien had put an engraving into one of the surfaces. "Excali-bar," Jonathan said out loud. He smiled, rolling his eyes at the alien's sense of humor.
T. Ellery Hodges
#80. A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.
William Ellery Channing
#81. What makes a shamrock so special anyway?
One leaf for love, one leaf for hope, one leaf for faith, and one leaf for luck. The fourth leaf is a teeny bit smaller than the other three. That's how you know it's real ...
... people have looked to clovers to ward off evil spirits.
Ellery Adams
#82. When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.
Lauren DeStefano
#83. Now go bring back someone's head on the front of your Lexus for Mommy, okay?
Ellery's mother to him
Amy Lane
#85. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
#86. We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
William Ellery Channing
#87. I met a girl, Doc."
He let out a light laugh. "You meet girls every day, Connor; this is nothing new.
Sandi Lynn
#88. I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come.
William Ellery Channing
#89. Now, Jehovah, Yahweh, was a member of no Trinity, was represented by no lambs, suffered no little children. He was an almighty vindictive deity. He meddled in individual lives. And He was always right because He was.
Ellery Queen
#90. I told myself that the last thing I needed was something else to love- something else to lose.
Ellery A. Kane
#91. Quin lay down next to me and buried his face in my neck. I felt everything hidden and heavy inside him collapse in my arms. His hot tears joined with mine.
"I need you."
"I know," I answered.
Ellery A. Kane
#92. It doesn't translate perfectly, but the gist is this; fear is the heart alone.
T. Ellery Hodges
#93. Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.
Lauren DeStefano
#94. My point is that she's not smart. She's not nice. And most importantly, she's not you. If Quin can't see that, he doesn't deserve you.
Ellery A. Kane
#95. Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.
Ellery Sedgwick
#96. My very revered father, I am beginning to think that - Well, there's little peace in this world for a quiet book-loving man.
Ellery Queen
#97. It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!
Ellery Adams
#98. It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing
#99. If love was a lucky penny, shiny and unspoiled, secreted in a most unlikely place, then it's tarnished flipside was loss.
Ellery A. Kane
#100. Life ain't always easy and it ain't always fair, but there's beauty in every day. You just gotta know where to look.
Ellery Adams
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