Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? — P. D. James Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir? — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out,… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
![“All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.” quote by P. D. James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e8/p-d-james-2-8190_believe_all-these-problems-deciding-cases-are-ea_1473257.jpg)
