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
Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
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?
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.