Dodie Smith Quotes

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

I'm in my dream world.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.