Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

- Dodie Smith

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of …

- Dodie Smith

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 livi…

- Dodie Smith

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

- 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

If you love people, you take them on trust.

- 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

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

- Dodie Smith

...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