Roald Dahl Quotes

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are in...

...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If y...

Never get out of bed, never go to the window, and never look behind the curtain.

Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to ...

If you are good life is good.

There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a ...

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda...

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

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do i...

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck."Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on ...

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

Life is more fun if you play games.

I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once...

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the...

What sort of a book would you like to read next?" she asked.

All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest gi...

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fa...

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lo...

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. ...

We may see a Creature with forty-nine headsWho lives in the desolate snow,And whenever he catches a ...

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ...

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting littl...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ha...

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ha...

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you g...

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in an...

You is getting nosier than a parker.

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizz...

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plan...

Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!” cried Mr. Twit, poking around in it with his fork.“It’s a new kind,” Mr...

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

Down vith children! Do them in!Boil their bones and fry their skin!Bish them, sqvish them, bash them...

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamm...

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply...

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appr...

A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is r...

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted...

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

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lo...

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master e...

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings yo...

I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams ...

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exis...

The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It's all right to be doing it yourself but i...

You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks aw...

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours ...

England once there lived a bigAnd wonderfully clever pig.To everybody it was plainThat Piggy had a m...

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

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus...

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar...

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...

Truth is more important than modesty

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

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force...