Quotes from Roald Dahl

The Oompa-Loompas

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances.

There was the President's Chief Financial Advisor, who was standing in the middle of the room trying to balance the budget on top of his head, but it kept falling off.

because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started!

Thank you so much for the tea.' The

her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts.

clogged with all kinds of muck and wax and bits of chewing gum and dead flies and stuff like that. This made him deaf. 'SPEAK LOUDER,' he said to Bunce

mi querido muchacho, por favor, no discutas! –gritó el señor Wonka–. ¡Es una pérdida de tiempo precioso! Y bien

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. Sundays were a bit better. They all looked forward to Sundays because then, although they had exactly the same, everyone was allowed a second helping.

Bucket was able to get rid of them so that Charlie could go to bed. 13

Je n'approuve pas le meurtre, dit la reine. - Mais ce sont eux-mêmes des meurtriers, fit remarquer le chef de l'armée de terre. - Ce n'est pas une raison pour suivre leur exemple, répliqua la reine, ce ne sont pas deux torts conjugués qui feront valoir le bon droit. - Et deux bons droits ne font pas un bon gauche! s'exclama le BGG.

Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker!

he LOVED THAT SMELL! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!

Home again I swiftly glide Back to my beautiful bride She'll not feel so rotten As soon as she's gotten Some cider inside her inside 'Oh poor Mrs Badger, he cried, So hungry she very near died. But she'll not feel so hollow If only she'll swallow Some cider inside her inside.' ---Fantastic Mr. Fox, Ronald Dhal

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

to be thousands of people

Run along." Outside in the corridor, we made a pact

I can't bear to think of it!' Sophie cried. 'Then don't,' the BFG said. 'For years and years I is sitting here on this very rock every night after night when they is galloping away, and I is feeling so sad for all the human beans they is going to gobble up. But I has had to get used to it. There is nothing I can do. If I wasn't a titchy little runty giant only twenty-four feet high then I would be stopping them. But that is absolutely out of the window.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

loved her more than ever when she said things like that.

Dreams like being mixed,' the BFG answered. 'They is getting very lonesome all by themselves in those glassy bottles.

She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs, but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh.

Everybody is making his own rules to suit himself.