Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle Quotes

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life.

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

Perhaps he finds beauty saddening
I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them, ...

Wakings are the worst times
almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

This desire for solitude often overcomes her at house-cleaning times.

We burnt the salt and the herbs (in America it is correct to drop the h in herbs
it does sound odd.)

I think what I really mean is that [she] won't be WANTING things to happen. She will want things to say just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exciting may be just round the corner.

She was so scared that she forgot to be a contralto.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them ... They oughtn't to be left behind to be despised.

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!

What is it about the English countryside
why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?