Quotes from Dodie Smith

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

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

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

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?

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

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

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.