# Quote — P.D. James, A Taste for Death

> It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

- Author: [P.D. James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james.md)
- Book: [A Taste for Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-taste-for-death.md)
- Page: 373
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._James#A_Taste_for_Death_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-taste-for-death/it-was-one

## More from this book

> I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

p. 412 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/a-taste-for-death/i-can-understand.md)