We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
—P. D. James
Topics: Obligation
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
—P. D. James
Topics: Nature
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
—P. D. James
Topics: Science, Scientists
No one has it who isn’t capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn’t false.
—P. D. James
Topics: Charm
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.
—P. D. James
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
—P. D. James
Topics: Literature, Books
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
—P. D. James
Topics: Memory
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Dorothy L. Sayers English Novelist, Playwright
- J. K. Rowling English Novelist
- Doris Lessing British Novelist, Poet
- Agatha Christie British Novelist
- Beryl Bainbridge British Novelist
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon English Novelist
- Margaret Thatcher British Head of State
- Arnold Bennett British Novelist
- H. G. Wells English Novelist, Historian
- Israel Zangwill English Writer, Political Activist
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