Dodie Smith

I was only expecting bread and margarine for tea, and I don’t get as used to margarine as I could wish. I thank heaven there is no cheaper form of bread than bread.

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

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England

you love people, you take them on trust.

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

art could state very little – that its whole business was to evoke responses

And surely I could give him – a sort of contentment?
That isn’t enough to give. Not for the giver.