We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.
P. D. JamesHuman kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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. JamesIf this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?
P. D. James