Murder Quote by P.D. James

“I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.”

— P.D. James

“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will…

— P.D. James

“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably…

— P.D. James

“I have enough trouble living with my own neurosis without coping with other people’s.”

— P.D. James

“(A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed…

— P.D. James

“had found it difficult to sleep since my husband had been killed, and now I lay rigid under the canopy of the four-poster re-living…

— P.D. James

“It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away…

— P.D. James

“On the whole I’m glad; you can’t mourn for unborn grandchildren when there never was a hope of them. This planet is doomed anyway.…

— P.D. James

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

— P.D. James

“The young seldom lie convincingly. They haven’t had time to practise like the rest of us.”

— P.D. James

“It is doubtful whether Mrs Bennet missed the company of her second daughter, but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite…

— P.D. James

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

— P.D. James