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Quotes from Dodie Smith

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
~ Dodie Smith
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
~ Dodie Smith
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
~ Dodie Smith
If you love people, you take them on trust.
~ Dodie Smith
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
~ Dodie Smith
... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
~ Dodie Smith
No, that was my privilege.
~ Dodie Smith
...[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.
~ Dodie Smith
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
~ Dodie Smith
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
~ Dodie Smith
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
~ Dodie Smith
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
~ Dodie Smith
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...
~ Dodie Smith
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.
~ Dodie Smith
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
~ Dodie Smith
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
~ Dodie Smith
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.
~ Dodie Smith
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
~ Dodie Smith
If you love people, you take them on trust.
~ Dodie Smith
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
~ Dodie Smith
Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
~ Dodie Smith
Oh, comfortable cocoa!
~ Dodie Smith
The Devil's out of fashion.
~ Dodie Smith