Quotes from Roald Dahl

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

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.

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

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

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Good authour Good books

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.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

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

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

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

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

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Truth is more important than modesty

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.