Dodie Smith quotes

Dodie Smith was an English dramatist and novelist, celebrated for her play "Dear Octopus" and novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians." Her works are known for their wit, warmth, and keen observations of family dynamics. She captured the hearts of readers and audiences with her memorable characters and storytelling. Here are 53 of her quotes:

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

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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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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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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.

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I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

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The Devil's out of fashion.

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

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

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

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If you love people, you take them on trust.

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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.

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

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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?

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

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

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

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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

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

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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

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