Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
Dodie Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
Curbing
Imaginings
Noticed
Happen
Happens
Things
Never
Life
More quotes by Dodie Smith
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't 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.
Dodie Smith
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
Dodie Smith
Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
Dodie Smith
I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
Dodie Smith
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
Dodie Smith
People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
Dodie Smith
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
Dodie Smith
Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
Dodie Smith
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
Dodie Smith
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
Dodie Smith
Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
Dodie Smith
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
Dodie Smith
Death is too much to ask of the living.
Dodie Smith
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
Dodie Smith
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
Dodie Smith
It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
Dodie Smith
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
Dodie Smith
