Dodie Smith Quotations

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

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

My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

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.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.