Quotes by : P.D. James

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

Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual....

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't....

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault,....

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

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

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour.....

Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit,....