Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
P. D. JamesIf you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?
P. D. JamesWork did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?
P. D. JamesBooks of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
P. D. James