Dodie Smith Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
May 3, 1896 – November, 24, 1990.

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include I Capture the Castle (1948), and The Starlight Barking (1967). 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 the BBC's The Big Read (2003).

Also known as Playwright

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Dodie Smith
- Suffering
- Teach
- Someone
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Dodie Smith
- Depression
- Deeds
- Noble

It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

Dodie Smith
- Together
- Forever
- Spirit
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith
- Family
- Wish
- Octopus
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

Dodie Smith
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Dodie Smith
- Nothing
- Seems
- Costs
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

Dodie Smith
- People
- Want
- Friendship
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.

Dodie Smith
- People
- Writing
- Trying

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Dodie Smith
- Writing
- College
- Except
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Dodie Smith