Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 4

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.

We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

The Devil's out of fashion.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Oh, wise young judge.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.