232 Quotes by Dodie Smith

Topaz was wonderfully patient – but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

But some characters in books are really real – Jane Austen’s are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

Oh, I have just had an idea – after tea I shall attack myself with sandpaper.

Prayer’s a very tricky business.

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.

My whole heart was so full of Simon that even my pity for Stephen wasn’t quite real – it was only something I felt I ought to feel, more from my head than my heart. And I knew I ought to pity him all the more because I could pity him so little.

I like seeing people when they can’t see me.

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.

Then I told myself that as I never gave the Church a thought when I was feeling happy, I could hardly expect it to do anything for me when I wasn’t. You can’t get insurance money without paying in premiums.