Quotes by : P.D. James

SIR DANIEL was a large man, broad of shoulder...his eyes were rather small above the double pouches and....

What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear....

The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those....

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed....

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound....

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off.....

Before he turned again the to the car his eye was caught by a small clump of unknown flowers. The pale....

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt it was often the most innocent who were....

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.