Dodie Smith
Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smithwas an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Other works include I Capture the Castle, and The Starlight Barking. The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 movie version. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth3 May 1896
Prayer's a very tricky business.
Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.
There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.
Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.