Quotes from Roald Dahl

The watchers below could see the chocolate swishing around the boy in the pipe, and they could see it building up behind him in a solid mass, pushing against the blockage. The pressure was terrific. Something had to give. Something did give, and that something was Augustus. WHOOF! Up he shot again like a bullet in the barrel of a gun.

This is test number one hundred and thirty-two!' I said, chalking it up on the board. "I handed him the pill. He looked at it nervously. I couldn't blame him for being a bit jittery after what had happened to the other one hundred and thirty-one volunteers.

IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD! IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND! HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE! HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE! HE CANNOT THINK—HE ONLY SEES!

scrumdiddlyumptious taste, so says the Welly-eating Giant.' 'What do the people of Wellington taste of?' Sophie

gambling's not a sin provided that you always win.

What if they come after us?' said Mr Bucket, speaking for the first time.

I IS ABLE TO MAKE THE ELEKTRIK LITES GO ON AND OFF JUST BY WISHING IT.

Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.

I IS ABEL TO JUMP OUT OF ANY HIGH WINDOW AND FLOTE DOWN SAFELY.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

What's your name?' 'Pilot Officer Dahl, sir.' 'Very well, Dahl,' he said, weighing the package up and down in one hand. 'This is on no account to fall into enemy hands. Guard it with your life. Do I make myself clear?' 'Yes, sir,' I said, feeling important.

A man does not rise to become the Queen's butler unless he is gifted with extraordinary ingenuity, adaptability, versatility, dexterity, cunning, sophistication, sagacity, discretion, and a host of other talents than neither you nor I possess. Mr Tibbs had them all.

mike. "There's something crazy going on up here. There's

Human beans is killing each other much quicker than the giants is doing it.' 'But they don't eat each other,' Sophie said. 'Giants isn't eating each other either,' the BFG said. 'Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other.

Nor is crockadowndillies killing other crockadowndillies. Nor is pussy-cats killing pussy-cats.' 'They kill mice,' Sophie said. 'Ah, but they is not killing their own kind,' the BFG said. 'Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Nothing except the roots of the old peach tree…and a whole lot of earthworms and centipedes and insects living in the soil. But

I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn.

That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in yourself.

I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.

The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.

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

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. 'I look and smell,' Aunt Sponge declared, 'as lovely as a rose! Just feast your eyes upon my face, observe my shapely nose! Behold my heavenly silky locks! And if I take off both my socks You'll see my dainty toes.' 'But don't forget,' Aunt Spiker cried, 'how much your tummy shows!