An Unsuitable Job for a Woman Quotes

“Human beings have an irresistible urge towards self-sacrifice. They die for any reason or none at all, for meaningless abstractions like patriotism, justice, peace; for other men’s ideals, for other men’s power, for a few feet of earth.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Won’t you come in?”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“Papa decided that dear Isabelle was getting less – or it may have been more – out of her Cambridge education than he had expected.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

“The scent of roses came in waves through the open window, alternately sickening sweet and then as elusive as a half-caught memory.”
― P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman