P. D. James Quotes

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. - P. D. James

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. - P. D. James

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. - P. D. James

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. - P. D. James

She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance. - P. D. James

No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. - P. D. James

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. - P. D. James

It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down. - P. D. James

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. - P. D. James

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