128 Quotes by P. D. James

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.