Quotes from Roald Dahl

Some three years ago I drove down to Provence to spend a summer weekend with a lady who was interesting to me simply because she possessed an extraordinarily powerful muscle in a region where other women have no muscles at all.

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. I mean, if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers, I'd rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they [the Jews] were always submissive.

But Goldilocks, like many freaks, Does not appreciate antiques.

The Greeks have a trick of disguising a poor quality wine by adding pine resin to it, the idea being that the taste of the resin is not quite so appalling as the taste of the wine. We drank retsina because that was all there was.

a REAL WITCH is certain always to be wearing gloves when you meet her.

I look and smell,' Aunt Sponge declared, 'as lovely as a rose!

This morning from a halibut.

A REAL WITCH gets the same pleasure from squelching a child as you get from eating a plateful of strawberries and thick cream.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that - Willy Wonka

There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going! There's no knowing where they're rowing, Or which way the river's flowing! Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be growing, For the rowers keep on rowing, And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing. . . .

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as they finish the book.

The trouble is, I'm writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.

He resembled, to an extraordinary degree, an asparagus.

as much as the next man

Niets is een grotere kwelling dan een herinnering die net buiten de grenzen van het geheugen zweeft

I signaled the bus-driver and he stopped the bus for me right outside the cottage, and I flew down the steps of the bus straight into the arms of the waiting mother.

But it'll cost the earth!

RSPCC MEETING STRICTLY PRIVATE THIS ROOM IS RESERVED FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN

over the years i have discovered a surprising but simple truth about young ladies and it is this: the more beautiful their faces, the less delicate their thoughts.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Notice them. *No book ever ends when it's full of friends.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives...All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen

Tell me immediately who those people are in that glass capsule!' 'Ah-ha,' said the Chief Spy, twirling his false moustache.

I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement

She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding.