Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Believe, Ideas, Brain

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.56, St. Martin's Griffin

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

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  Hate, Men, Funny Marriage

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.149, St. Martin's Griffin

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

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  Kindness, Fate, Blow

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.85, St. Martin's Griffin

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

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  Girl, Becky, Type

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.134, Random House

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• Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

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  Conventionality, Decency

  Dodie Smith (1963). “The New Moon with the Old”

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• I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

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  Be Good, Wanted

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

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  Reading, Musician, Paper

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• What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

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  Doe, Visuals, Countryside

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.241, Random House

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• Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

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  Meals, Ham, Glory

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.154, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Oh, comfortable cocoa!

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  Cocoa, Comfortable

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.78, St. Martin's Griffin

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• How can a young man like to wear a beard?

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  Men, Beard, Young

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.74, St. Martin's Griffin

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

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  Devil, Ifs

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.70, St. Martin's Press

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• Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

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  Beauty, Horror, Turns

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.92, St. Martin's Press

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• The Devil's out of fashion.

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  Fashion, Devil

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.71, Random House

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

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  People, Might, Eccentric

  Dodie Smith (1963). “The New Moon with the Old”

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• Oh, wise young judge.

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  Wise, Judging, Young

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.388, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

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  Sweet, Flower, Past

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.183, Random House

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• Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

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  Elderly, Expression, Age

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• How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

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  Wish, Novel, Austen

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.30, Random House

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• ...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

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  Giving, Contentment, Enough

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.564, Random House

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• The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

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  Tea, Comfort, Needed

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.321, St. Martin's Griffin

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• So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

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  England, Melancholy

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.370, St. Martin's Press

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• Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

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  Country, Sky, Giving

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.43, Random House

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

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  Art, Thinking, Communion

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.266, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

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  Shame, Repent, Pauses

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.419, Random House

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