Quotes from Roald Dahl

I knew immediately, of course, that this was none other than The Grand High Witch herself. I knew also why she had worn a mask. She could never have moved around in public, let alone book in at a hotel, with her real face. Everyone who saw her would have run away screaming

Tortoise, Tortoise get bigger, bigger. Come on Tortoise grow up, puff up, shoot up! Spring up, Blow up swell up! Gorge! Guzzle! Stuff! Gulp! Put on fat, Tortoise, Put on fat! get on, Get on! Gobble food!!

Hiçbir yerden tek ses bile duyulmuyordu. Åžeftalinin üzerinde yolculuk yapmak hiç de bir uçak yolculuÄŸuna benzemiyordu. Uçak gökyüzünde pat?rt?lar, gürültüler ç?kararak hareket eder ve o kocaman bulut daÄŸlar?na gizlenmiÅŸ duran bir ÅŸeyler varsa, uçak gelirken koÅŸup saklan?rlar. Ä°ÅŸte bu yüzden, uçakla yolculuk edenler hiçbir ÅŸey göremezler.

What's that?' Sophie cried. 'That is all the giants zippfizzing off to another country to guzzle human beans,' the BFG

Frobscottle is sweet and jumbly!

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?

The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,' the BFG said.

Mr. Twit was one of these very hairy-faced men. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes and his nose, was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes.

Her face, I'm afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever.

Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.

You're cheating people who trust you.

It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin.

A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It's all right to be doing it yourself but it is a singularly unattractive spectacle for the onlooker.

There's more power and magic in those things in there than in all the rest of the world put together

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

Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.

Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones.

Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

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

As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon

But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES.

finest and fattest ducks and geese, plucked and ready for roasting! And up above, dangling from the rafters, there must have been at least a hundred smoked hams and fifty sides of bacon!

A witch is always a woman. I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women. There is no such thing as a male witch. (My own thoughts: I love women and I love witches)