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
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
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.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
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.
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.
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.
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
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.
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.