An Unsuitable Job for a Woman Quotes

“She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“I can never see why people should be jealous. After all, youth isn't a matter of privilege, we all get the same share of it. Some people may be born at an easier time or be richer or more privileged than others, but that hasn't anything to do with being young”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“A court of law is not constituted to establish the truth.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Why not stay in Cambridge for a week or so and let me show you the city? Sophie would let you have her spare room.’
‘No thank you, Hugo. I have to get back to town.’
There was nothing in town for her, but with Hugo there would be nothing in Cambridge for her either.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven’t a chance of getting.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Every time she opened that delicious mouth I was expecting her to illuminate life. I think I could have spent all my life just looking at her and waiting for the oracle.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Death is the least important thing about us.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“All Cambridge suicides were brilliant. But about this one there could be little doubt. Sir Ronald’s death would probably raise him to the status of genius.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“They were having no difficulty in believing her because she was telling the somewhat improbable truth. Now that she was about to lie, they would go on believing her.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“There were moments, usually on a sunny Easter morning, when she wished that she could with sincerity call herself a Christian; but for the rest of the year she knew herself to be what she was – incurably agnostic but prone to unpredictable relapses into faith.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Like doctors, the police were kind and condescendingly gentle to the uninstructed, keeping inviolate their awful knowledge. This body, while it breathed, had been more important than others. It wasn’t important now, but it could still make trouble for them.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“The police talked, not in whispers, but in confident normal voices unsubdued by death. They were professionals doing their job, working easily to the prescribed routine. They had been initiated into the mysteries of violent death; its victims held no awe for them.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“He had rested the pistol on the bark between them and had mumbled at her through the bread and cheese. “How would you shoot yourself behind your right ear? Go on, Cordelia—show.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Love is more destructive than hate. If you must dedicate your life to something, dedicate it to an idea.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“resolución requiere una paciente persistencia que llega a la obstinación.»”
― P.D. James, No apto para mujeres