Famous Quotes / P. D. James
10 Quotations by P. D. James
- 1. A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more viole ...
- 2. Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care ...
- 3. Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries u ...
- 4. I find it extraordinary that a straightforward, if inelegant, device for ensuring the survival of th ...
- 5. It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron the ...
- 6. It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life ...
- 7. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting ...
- 8. She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as i ...
- 9. There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
- 10. What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.