Dodie Smith Famous Quotes



I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring.

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.


Dodie Smith Quotations






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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."
Bertrand Russell

"No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread."
Robert Burton

"People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts."
Robert Keith Leavitt

I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray

"A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition."
Boutros BoutrosGhali

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
Assyrian Proverb

"In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt."
Meg Cabot

"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."
Kenneth A Wells

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
Ralph Waldo Emerson