Dodie Smith Quotes

Dodie Smith (9)

Birth:	3rd May, 1896
Death:	24th November, 1990
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Playwriter

About

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking.

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

  Dodie Smith

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

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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 often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

  Dodie Smith

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

  Dodie Smith

• Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

  Dodie Smith

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

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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.

  Dodie Smith