232 Quotes by Dodie Smith

And suddenly all the puppies were her puppies; she was their mother – just as Pongo had felt he was their father.

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known.

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 believe it is customary to get one’s washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted – my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.

You lose yourself in something beyond yourself and it’s a lovely rest.

Neil is wearing a coat such as I never saw in my life before: checked back and front, but plain sleeves. Perhaps it was made out of two old coats – though I hope not, as that would show him to be poor and his brother mean. And it looked rather a noisily new coat. I expect it’s just American.

Even a broken heart doesn’t warrant a waste of good paper.

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future – and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

There’s nothing more, except that I usually sit down until the flames die down and try to think myself back into the past.