232 Quotes by Dodie Smith

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.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

If you love people, you take them on trust.