232 Quotes by Dodie Smith

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

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.

Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

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