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 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.
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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.
Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
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.
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
Prayer's a very tricky business.
Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?