What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
- P. D. James
More Quotes By P. D. James
- Every island to a child is a treasure island.
- It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
- In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren’t credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty...
- Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but...
- A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate...
- We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand...
- Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more...
- What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
- When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?
- Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty...
- We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world....
- to look back on one’s life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. … the past is not...
- A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for...
- Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes...
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