Prayer's a very tricky business.

— Dodie Smith

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

— Dodie Smith

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

— Dodie Smith

That little glow of comfort lasted me right through the evening but was gone when I woke up next morning. Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.

— Dodie Smith

The Devil's out of fashion.

— 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

Then I told myself that as I never gave the Church a thought when I was feeling happy, I could hardly expect it to do anything for me when I wasn't. You can't get insurance money without paying in premiums.

— Dodie Smith

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

— Dodie Smith

... 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.

— Dodie Smith

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.

— Dodie Smith