Quotes from Dodie Smith

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

"Why, that's Cruella de Vil," said Mrs. Dearly. "We were at school together. She was expelled for drinking ink."

The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Mrs. Jakes had sent up stew and apple pie.

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.