P. D. James quotes - page 4

Hunch is a good servant but a poor master. (P. D. James)

How odd, he thought, that one could get used to beauty [i.e. in one's wife]. Once he had thought that any price would be worth paying if he could possess it, know it to be exclusively his, feed on it, be comforted, exalted, even sanctified by it. But you couldn't possess beauty any more than you could possess another human being.

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His face was a mask betraying nothing.

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Mrs Buckley was revealed as a slight, nervous-looking woman with a small precisely formed mouth between bulging cheeks, which gave her the appearance of a hamster.

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Violent death, like most disasters, afforded its satisfactions to those who were neither victim nor suspect.

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But of course she knew it. Chambers was a hotbed of gossip. People spoke in front of her. Gossip permeated the very air as if by a mysterious process of osmosis.

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What condemned a man [in a police investigation] was the inability to keep his mouth shut.

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Old age can be very frightening, Commander. A lawyer whose mind is apt to go blank isn't just inefficient, he's dangerous.

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You need to decide what you're interested in.

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P. D. James

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: August 3, 1920
Died: November 27, 2014
Quotes count: 84
Wikipedia: P. D. James

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