Dodie Smith Quotes

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

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

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

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

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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

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

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

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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.

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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

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And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

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

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What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

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It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

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I found myself thinking it was a bit like my disappointment when I was confirmed. This may be blasphemous but I think not. For expecting to achieve union with God is similar to expecting to achieve it with man. Only I minded much more as regards man.

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

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

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Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

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

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

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It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been, in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

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For though he had very little Latin beyond 'Cave canem,' he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

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

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

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Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

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One gets, he thought, not what one wants but what one is.

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