The Children of Men
A source page for quotes linked to P. D. James.
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Source: A Taste for Death
Source: Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
Source: Cover Her Face: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
Source: Innocent Blood
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.”
Source: Devices and Desires
Source: The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery
Source: Death of an Expert Witness
Source: A Taste for Death
“Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.”
“we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.”
Source: Innocent Blood
“the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.”
Source: P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness
Source: A Taste for Death
“What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.”
Source: Innocent Blood
“No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
Source: The Lighthouse
“Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“Old age makes caricatures of us all.”
Source: A Taste for Death
Source: A Taste for Death
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
Source: Original Sin
Source: The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery
Source: P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness
“however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
Source: A Taste for Death
Source: The Lighthouse
“Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.”
Source: A Taste for Death
“Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.”
Source: Original Sin
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.”
Source: Devices and Desires
“A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.”
Source: The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery
Source: Devices and Desires
“No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.”
Source: The Children of Men
Source: Original Sin
Source: Original Sin
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.”