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How can a young man like to wear a beard? — Dodie Smith

We burnt the salt and the herbs (in America it is correct to drop the h in herbs
it does sound odd.) — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

People's clothes ought to be buried with them ... They oughtn't to be left behind to be despised. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

What with books and chocolate, there's not much else you could have in it, is there? — Dodie Smith

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? — Dodie Smith

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? — Dodie Smith

It can't be immoral to love anyone -- as long as one doesn't hurt anyone by it. — Dodie Smith

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. — Dodie Smith

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them. — Dodie Smith

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. — Dodie Smith

Oh, wise young judge. — Dodie Smith

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy. — Dodie Smith

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

The way one's mind can dash about just while one opens a window. — Dodie Smith

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England. — Dodie Smith

It is odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. — Dodie Smith

My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher? — Dodie Smith

I don't want to miss anything. — Dodie Smith

At least we're companions in misfortune — Dodie Smith

Wakings are the worst times
almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it. — Dodie Smith

Surely I could give him
a sort of contentment ...
That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. — Dodie Smith

Death is too much to ask of the living. — Dodie Smith

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

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

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe. — Dodie Smith

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort. — Dodie Smith

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to! — Dodie Smith

She is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and glare. — Dodie Smith

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea. — Dodie Smith

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people. — Dodie Smith

It was wonderful, of course
ham with mustard is a meal of glory. — Dodie Smith

...[H]e's so good and good people are usually happy. But do happy things happen to the good, or can the good make happiness out of unhappiness? — Dodie Smith

Thinking of death
strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off
made me feel happier than ever. — Dodie Smith

Things you let yourself imagine happening, never do happen. — Dodie Smith

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world. — Dodie Smith

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts ... — Dodie Smith

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

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

I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't. — Dodie Smith

Prayer's a very tricky business. — Dodie Smith

Mr. Dearly wasn't exactly handsome but he had the kind of face you don't get tired of. — Dodie Smith

As long as I live I shall remember that silent minute. — Dodie Smith

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat. — Dodie Smith

Ah, but you're the insidious type
Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. — Dodie Smith

People do look different with their eyes closed, their features seem so much more sculptured. — Dodie Smith

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight. — Dodie Smith

I heard Molly say, 'Our Mouse is a hundred miles away.' But I wasn't as far away as that; I was in a dimly lit street somewhere in Hampstead. — Dodie Smith

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. — Dodie Smith

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them, ... — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

I wasn't merely remembering, it seemed to be trapped inside my eyelids. — Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. — Dodie Smith

If you love people, you take them on trust. — Dodie Smith

I really am just as discontented, but I don't seem to notice it so much. — Dodie Smith

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you. — Dodie Smith

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory — Dodie Smith

A loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. — Dodie Smith

Incidentally, I never felt less brisk in my life, because being looked at like that makes a person feel dizzy. — Dodie Smith

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up? — Dodie Smith

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

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. — Dodie Smith

It was a rather dreadful thought but somehow comforting. — Dodie Smith

Oh, I always employ shock tactics with men of genius," said Mrs. Cotton. "And one has to employ them in public or the men of genius bolt. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

But it is always dreadful when the pictures in front of one's eyes become meaningless and the real word is there instead and seems meaningless, too. — Dodie Smith

I could look at stationers' shops forever and ever. — Dodie Smith

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. — Dodie Smith

While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me ... — Dodie Smith

The thought was horrible, yet fascinating. — Dodie Smith

No, that was my privilege. — Dodie Smith

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. — Dodie Smith

She was so scared that she forgot to be a contralto. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

I still didn't believe him. And for the moment, I didn't much care one way or the other. My whole mind had swung back to Simon. — Dodie Smith

Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always. — Dodie Smith

I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold — Dodie Smith

She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner. — Dodie Smith

Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery. — Dodie Smith

For I know I shall be interrupted
I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long. — Dodie Smith

And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from the beginning. — Dodie Smith

It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet — Dodie Smith

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! — Dodie Smith

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me. — Dodie Smith

This desire for solitude often overcomes her at house-cleaning times. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day. — Dodie Smith

I love you, I love you, I love you. ~Cassandra
— Dodie Smith

I had found out in that glittering corridor off the ballroom that being with him could be more painful than being away from him. — Dodie Smith

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency. — Dodie Smith

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them
like 'em better sometimes. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England. — Dodie Smith

With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down. — Dodie Smith

It seemed an awful waste that we weren't in love with each other. — Dodie Smith

Oh, it was an artful place
it must make people who have money want to spend it madly! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

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

Oh, comfortable cocoa! — Dodie Smith

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. — Dodie Smith

Long prayers are like nagging. — Dodie Smith

I like seeing people when they can't see me. — Dodie Smith

Oh, I have just had an idea - after tea I shall attack myself with sandpaper. — Dodie Smith

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. — Dodie Smith

[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle