Roald Dahl Quotes

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.