Quotes by Dodie Smith

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

But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austens are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

There is something revolting about the way girls minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesnt much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

... there is something revolting about the way girls minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

It isnt a bit of use my pretending Im not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

I wonder if there isnt a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

Even a broken heart doesnt warrant a waste of good paper.

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

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

...I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.

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,...

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says Netherfield Park is let a last. And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.

I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down. But words are very inadequate – anyway, my words are.

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

Prayers a very tricky business.

A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in ones imagination, they never happen in ones life.