Roald Dahl Quotes
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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.
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The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.
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Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.
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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.
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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
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I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
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Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
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Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.
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You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
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Don't gobblefunk around with words.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.
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I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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