# Quote — P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

> "Hunch is a good servant but a poor master."

- Author: [P.D. James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james.md)
- Book: [An Unsuitable Job for a Woman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman.md)
- Page: 203
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._James#An_Unsuitable_Job_for_a_Woman_(1972)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman/hunch-is-a-good

## More from this book

> "My mother used to say, 'Don't marry for money, but marry where money is! ' There's no harm in looking for money as long as there's kindness as well."

p. 117 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman/my-mother-used.md)

> "It isn't what you suspect, it's what you can prove that counts."

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman/it-isnt-what.md)

> "Are you sorry about Isabelle leaving?"
>
> "I am rather. Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense. I could never quite accept that Isabelle was what she is: a generous, indolent, over-affectionate and stupid young woman. I thought that any woman as beautiful as she must have an instinct about life, access to some secret wisdom which is beyond cleverness. Every time she opened that delicious mouth I was expecting her to illumine life. I think I could have spent all my life just looking at her and waiting for the oracle. And all she could talk about was clothes."

p. 182 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman/are-you-sorry.md)