Quotes from Roald Dahl

Ah yes, and something else again. Because what I am trying to tell you… What I have been trying so hard to tell you all along is simply that my father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had.

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men

This place we're flying over now isn't in the atlas, is it?' the pilot said, grinning. 'You're darn right it isn't in the atlas!' cried the Head of the Air Force. 'We've flown clear off the last page!

I can see you is not born last week.

And Matilda found, to her surprise, that life could be fun. She decided to have as much fun as possible. After all, she was a very smart kid.

Take a bite and I am positive you will be shouting out oh how scrumdiddlyumptious this wonderveg is!

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

My grandmother was the only grandmother I ever met who smoked cigars.

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

If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

And when I protested a bit more, I remember he said, 'My dear Lady Ponsonby, there's nothing immoral about this. Art is only immoral when practiced by amateurs. It's the same with medicine. You wouldn't refuse to undress before your doctor, would you?

I bambini non sono seri come gli adulti, e ridono volentieri.

Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy.

that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen!

Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop!

Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel gevaarlijker is dan een rotjongen. Bovendien zijn ze veel moeilijker klein te krijgen. Een rotmeisje te grazen nemen is als achter een bromvlieg aan zitten. Je mept erop en het gore kreng is alweer weg. Rotmormeld, die meisjes.

Good strong hair,' he was fond of saying, 'means there's a good strong brain underneath.' 'Like Shakespeare,' Matilda had once said to him. 'Like who?' 'Shakespeare, Daddy.' 'Was he brainy?' 'Very, Daddy.' 'He had masses of hair, did he?' 'He was bald, Daddy.

This dream is continuing very nice. It has a very dory-hunky ending.

mouse-trrraps

Then they would roll these handfuls of cloud in their fingers until they turned into what looked like large white marbles. Then they would toss the marbles to one side and quickly grab more bits of cloud and start over again.

He should have burped," Charlie said. "Of course he should have burped," said Mr. Wonka. "I stood there shouting, 'Burp, you silly ass, burp, or you'll never come down again! But he didn't or couldn't or wouldn't, I don't know which. Maybe he was too polite. He must be on the moon by now." On the next door, it said, SQUARE CANDIES THAT LOOK ROUND.

They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.

That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.