Peter Rimmer > Quotes

“If you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoy writing them, then I am happy. Its got nothing to do with the money.”
― Peter Rimmer

“Churchill who said democracy is the worst form of government there is except for all the others.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 7 to 9

“Throughout history wicked men, dressed in the clothes of saints, have searched for a popular cause to give themselves power.”
― Peter Rimmer, Echoes from the Past

“Who are they going to kill?” “Does it matter?” “Probably not. If people want to kill each other they will always find a way.” “They always do,” agreed his cousin.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Asian Sagas Box Set: Books 1 to 2

“Yes, he’s still alive. The trial is two weeks from yesterday. A military”
― Peter Rimmer, Echoes from the Past

“Secretly, his employers checked for a police record. He was David Llewellyn-Jones, born in Paddington, London,”
― Peter Rimmer, Cry of the Fish Eagle

“I am there in every way. Mentally and physically. I become each one of my characters in turn. Or more exactly, each character takes over my body and lives through me.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 1 to 3: A captivating historical come to life series

“She’d have another, comfortable life far away from the suffering people she had thought she was saving.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles #10-12

“They do say once you’ve been bitten by the African bug you always come back again. Something about drinking the water of the Zambezi. Does funny things to people. After that, they can’t leave the place alone.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 7 to 9

“And the men who control the opinions of the”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 1 to 3: A captivating historical come to life series

“You think we could be together forever?” “Forever is right now. That’s how you’ve got to look at it. Forever in the moment. You see we’re happy. Forever happy. We’ll always have this moment. Forever…”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles #10-12

“You have her genes. Everything she once was you are now, Beth. It’s why it’s good to know who your ancestors were. Gives one a sense of belonging to more than today.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 7 to 9

“What was difficult was finding an honest, dedicated man with a clear brain to watch over everything and find the flaws by thinking through all the problems before going ahead. As they had taught him at Oxford, the vital link in the chain of business was management. Without good management all the workers in the world would be going round in circles with no one in the end making any money, the investment coming to nothing, everyone out of a job.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“Only got one life. Might as well do something with it. Before you know, it’s too late. Better to look back and regret what you have done than regret what you haven’t done when it’s too late. When you’re too old.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 7 to 9

“is rarely possible to rely on other people in life to make us happy, even to make us content. The peace of life only comes from within ourselves.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 1 to 3: A captivating historical come to life series

“With modern medicine we’ve cut the child mortality rate in Rhodesia by eighty per cent in the last fifty years.” “They won’t remember that. They’ll want their land back. Like the Russian peasants. People always want what they haven’t got. They don’t see hard work and knowledge as a prerequisite for making a success of their lives.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“man hungry for success with just the right amount of ruthlessness. Sentimental businessmen in Sir Jacob’s experience almost always went bust. There could be no sentiment in business. Only in charity.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“My mother said all the knowledge of the world was between the covers of books.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 1 to 3: A captivating historical come to life series

“and that everything at Elsworthy Electronics would carry on as before. But James knew better. If he”
― Peter Rimmer, Cry of the Fish Eagle

“Young people have such full lives they don’t do anything about it. We’re the comfort in the back of their minds. Where they will run to if they get themselves into trouble. We should be thankful they are all so independent. We always taught them to think for themselves. Grown children shouldn’t run to Mother.” “They could give me a ring every now and again.” “You haven’t been the best of company of late. Maybe that keeps them away.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 7 to 9

“I love you, Phillip.” “Careful, darling. Don’t throw words around too glibly. Only say something when you really mean it. Not when you’ve just heard what you want to hear.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Game of Life

“People are funny.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“To bed to dream, perchance to sleep.”
― Peter Rimmer, Cry of the Fish Eagle

“nieces and nephews came to the sympathetic shoulder”
― Peter Rimmer, Echoes from the Past

“Southern Rhodesia who was reading geology. I tutored”
― Peter Rimmer, To the Manor Born

“sick.”
― Peter Rimmer, Elephant Walk

“left”
― Peter Rimmer, Elephant Walk

“The last Sunday in September was beautiful. A day for Christopher to walk in the park, or better still take the train into the English countryside to smell the flowers and feel the reason for him being alive. If there was a Creator, Christopher found him in the countryside, not in a man-made building with man-made music to condition his mind. He did not sing praises to his Creator. He let the birds do that. They were better. Every one of them he had ever heard could sing in tune.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 4 to 6

“If you want to succeed in life whatever you do has to be perfect. If a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing properly. Cliché but true. Why it’s a cliché, repeated so often. Get it right. The rest will take care of itself. You won’t have to bullshit your way through life.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set: Books 7 to 9

“She says she may be an American citizen speaking with an American accent but underneath it all she is still English. She says her roots are English, her life American.”
― Peter Rimmer, The Game of Life