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
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
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 was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!