Quotes by : P.D. James

She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

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

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to....

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

Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country....

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate....

You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that....

Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is....