P. D. James Quotes

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

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

What a child doesn''t receive he can seldom later give.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.