Top 201 Quotes & Sayings by Roald Dahl - Page 4

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

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.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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

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.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another…and another…and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,' the shopkeeper said pleasantly. Charlie nodded, his mouth bulging with chocolate.

Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

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.

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants

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

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

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.

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

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

...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.

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.