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People Quotes by P.D. James
- Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.
- In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people…
- Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
- Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then…
- I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture…
- People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
- Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic –…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle