Quotes from Roald Dahl

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I padri e le madri sono tipi strani: anche se il figlio è il più orribile moccioso che si possa immaginare, sono convinti che si tratti di un bambino stupendo. Niente di male: il mondo è fatto così. Ma quando dei genitori cominciano a spiegarci che il loro orrendo pargolo è un autentico genio, viene proprio da urlare: — Presto, una bacinella! Ho una nausea tremenda!

Matilde non rispose. Rimase in silenzio, ribollendo di rabbia. Sapeva che odiare i propri genitori non era una bella cosa, ma non riusciva ad impedirselo. I libri le avevano mostrato la vita sotto una luce che loro ignoravano. Se soltanto avessero letto un romanzo di Dickens, o di Kipling, avrebbero scoperto che imbrogliare la gente e guardare la televisione non è tutto.

E soprattutto, guarda con occhi scintillanti tutto il mondo intorno a te perché i segreti più grandi sono sempre nascosti nei luoghi più improbabili. Chi non crede nella magia non la troverà mai».

Showler here, Mr. President

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

listening intently. He shook his head. 'There is no dream in here

I'm sorry, I said. It's none of my business what you do. The trouble is, I'm a writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.

There's more food in one bottle of beer, me lad, than twenty sandwiches.

A whizzpopper!' cried the BFG, beaming at her. 'Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping is forbidden among human beans?

Puffin is over seventy years old.

Twice a day, on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket had to walk right past the gates of the factory. And every time he went by, he would begin to walk very, very slowly, and he would hold his nose high in the air and take long deep sniffs of the gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him. Oh

gorgeous chocolatey smell

Truth is more important than modesty

It was a very beautiful thing, this Golden Ticket, having been made, so it seemed, from a sheet of pure gold hammered out almost to the thinness of paper. On one side of it, printed by some clever method in jet-black letters, was the invitation itself—from Mr. Wonka.

I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!

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

Everyone is born. But not everyone is born the same. One way or another though, every human being is unique, for better or worse.

I HAS A PET BEE THAT MAKES ROCK AND ROLL MUSIK WHEN IT FLIES.

The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled. 'I is feeling the teeth sticking into my anklet!

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush--climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.

If your going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

There's three of them in nightshirts! Two old women and one

They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.