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
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
It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.
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.
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.