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
I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't. - Dodie Smith
Oh, it was an artful place--it must make people who have money want to spend it madly! - Dodie Smith
My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life. - 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
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith
She was so scared that she forgot to be a contralto. - Dodie Smith
The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - 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
Quand je lis un livre, j'y mets toute mon imagination, de sorte qu'en ce sens la lecture ressemble un peu à l'écriture; ou plutôt c'est comme si je vivais ce que je lisais - Dodie Smith