Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 3

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

  Dodie Smith

  Girl, Becky, Type

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

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• 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

  Father, Believe, Water

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• Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

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  Love, Luxury, Return

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.255, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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  Rain, Cutting, Church

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.282, Random House

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• I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

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  Real, Feelings, Mind

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.242, St. Martin's Press

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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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• My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?

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  Children, House, Green

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.85, Random House

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• 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.

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  Girl, Real, Men

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

  Dodie Smith

  Wish, Novel, Austen

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

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• I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

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  Be Good, Wanted

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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, 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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• 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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• And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

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  Understanding, Ems, Sometimes

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.336, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

  Dodie Smith

  Conventionality, Decency

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

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• Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

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  Liars, Heaven, Would Be

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.565, Random House

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

  Dodie Smith

  Elderly, Expression, Age

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

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  Mean, Safe, Anticipation

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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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 could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

  Dodie Smith

  Devil, Ifs

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

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