Top 124 Quotes & Sayings by P. D. James - Page 3

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.