Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.
("I Capture the Castle")
More Quotes from Dodie Smith:
If you love people, you take them on trust.Dodie Smith
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.
Dodie Smith
Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.
Dodie Smith
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.
Dodie Smith
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
Dodie Smith
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
Dodie Smith
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Past Quotes, Present Quotes, Thought & Thinking QuotesI think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
Charlotte Rampling
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goering
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
Arundhati Roy