Quotes by Dodie Smith

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

“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“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 n...”

“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”

“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 ...”

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

“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 ...”

“... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.”

“It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.”

“Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. ”

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

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

“I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.”

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

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

“I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing. And I saw that though what I felt in the church was only imagination, it...”

“Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.”

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

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