16 ordspråk av P. D. James
P. D. James
P. D. James föddes den August 3rd 1920 - English writer
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 A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. |
| God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. |
| Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch. |
| Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. |
| I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism |
| I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously? |
| In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. |
| It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down. |
| It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. |
| Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness which destroyed appetite and peace. |
| No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. |
| She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance. |
| There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. |
| We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. |
| What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. |
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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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