Dodie Smith
Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smithwas an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Other works include I Capture the Castle, and The Starlight Barking. The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 movie version. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth3 May 1896
Dodie Smith quotes about
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
Death is too much to ask of the living.
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.