Quotes from Roald Dahl

They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!

When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interested your readers at all.

Get up at once, you lazy little beast!

Hey!' Bruno called out 'Give me the rest of that banana I was eating.

No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled

Personally, I mistrust all handsome men. The superficial pleasures of this life come too easily to them, and they seem to walk the world as though they themselves were personally responsible for their own good looks. I don't mind a woman being pretty. That's different. But in a man, I'm sorry, but somehow or other I find it downright offensive.

Matilda said nothing. She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season.

In the town itself, actually within sight of the house in which Charlie lived, there was an ENORMOUS CHOCOLATE FACTORY! Just imagine that! And it wasn't simply an ordinary enormous chocolate factory, either. It was the largest and most famous in the whole world!

Era così piacevole tener vicino una bevanda calda mentre leggeva e leggeva, nella sua stanzetta silenziosa. I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure.

Gli uomini non sono sempre così furbi come vorrebbero far credere. Te ne accorgerai quando sarai più grande, figlia mia.

Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables.

Your daughter's a cheat and a liar," the father said

It was no good. The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face. The

She believed she could so she did.

What did she do to you? Matilda asked. I don't want to talk about it, Miss Honey said. It's too horrible. But surely you could have complained to somebody? Matilda said. To whom? Miss Honey said. And anyway, I was far too terrified to complain. I told you, I was her slave. Did she beat you? Let's not go into details, Miss Honey said.

Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

let's learn and note The art of politics. Let's teach you how to miss the boat And how to drop some bricks, And how to win the people's vote And lots of other tricks. Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.

And thus the journey ended. But the travelers lived on.

it is like choosing from a menu.

Charlie stood at the open door of the Elevator and stared into the swirling vapors. This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical. It was all so deathly quiet, so desolate and empty.

I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.' A

Never in a month of Mondays.

There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG.

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake. Money is the thing they fight over most.