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One Quotes by Dodie Smith
- What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
- But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting…
- ...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
- He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much…
- I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the…
- It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts...
- I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
- Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
- I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut…
- The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it…
- I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle