Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle Quotes

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

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

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

The Devil's out of fashion.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

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

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

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

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

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

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

... 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.

A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

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.

I couldn't make it out - why you ever let me, I mean. I understand now. Things like that happen when you're in love with the wrong person. Worse things. Things you never forgive yourself for.

It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

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

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

...I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.

...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

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