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

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

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.

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

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.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.