95+ Dodie Smith Quotes On Education, Civil War And Government

Dodie Smith was an English dramatist, novelist and playwright. She is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which was later adapted into an animated Disney film. Smith also wrote the play Dear Octopus, which was produced in 1938 and became a popular West End hit. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dodie Smith on education, life, love.

Top 10 Dodie Smith Quotes

1. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
2. I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
3. What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
4. Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
5. Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
6. It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
7. Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
8. I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
9. Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
10. I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Dodie Smith Short Quotes

• Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
• a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
• When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
• I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
• Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
• Oh, comfortable cocoa!
• And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
• Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
• Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
• People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

Dodie Smith Quotes About Life

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

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

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. — 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

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

I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did. — Dodie Smith

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

Dodie Smith Quotes About Love

We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian. — Dodie Smith

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

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

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. — Dodie Smith

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

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

If you love people, you take them on trust. — Dodie Smith

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. — Dodie Smith

Dodie Smith Quotes About Hearts

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. — Dodie Smith

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

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

Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart. — Dodie Smith

Dodie Smith Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding). — Dodie Smith

They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them. — Dodie Smith

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. — Dodie Smith

Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water. — Dodie Smith

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

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. — Dodie Smith

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is. — Dodie Smith

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. — Dodie Smith

How can a young man like to wear a beard? — Dodie Smith

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people. — Dodie Smith

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. — Dodie Smith

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

The Devil's out of fashion. — Dodie Smith

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

Prayer's a very tricky business. — Dodie Smith

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? — Dodie Smith

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

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

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat. — Dodie Smith

I wanted so terribly to be good to him. — Dodie Smith

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame. — Dodie Smith

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

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

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. — Dodie Smith

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

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon. — 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

Death is too much to ask of the living. — Dodie Smith

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

Oh, wise young judge. — Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery. — Dodie Smith

My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher? — Dodie Smith

My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next. — Dodie Smith

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past. — Dodie Smith

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! — Dodie Smith

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort. — Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. — Dodie Smith

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! — Dodie Smith

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder. — Dodie Smith

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively. — Dodie Smith

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money. — Dodie Smith

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it. — Dodie Smith

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight. — Dodie Smith

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. — Dodie Smith

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency. — 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 have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold — Dodie Smith

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

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself — Dodie Smith

Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness. — 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

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy. — Dodie Smith

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray. — Dodie Smith

Life Lessons by Dodie Smith

1. Dodie Smith's works often emphasize the importance of kindness and understanding, as well as the power of friendship and loyalty.
2. She also encourages us to take risks and to follow our dreams, even if they seem impossible.
3. Finally, Smith's works often remind us to appreciate the beauty of life and to find joy in the little things.