Quotes from Roald Dahl

Yes, but I've read the books as well." Mrs. Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her. "I thought some were very poor," Matilda said, "but others were lovely. I liked The Secret Garden best of all. It was full of mystery. The mystery of the room behind the closed door and the mystery of the garden behind the big wall.

sólo tengo dos perros, cuatro gatos, seis conejos, dos periquitos, tres canarios, un loro verde, una tortuga, una pecera llena de peces, una jaula de ratones blancos y un estúpido hámster. ¡Yo quiero una ardilla!

I have therefore prepared personally vith my own hands a limited qvantity of Delayed Action Mouse-Maker vhich I vill distrrribute to the ancient vuns before you leave the hotel.

finished reading.

Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Pregúntale a cualquier jardinero.

It's very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,' said the Postmaster General. 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.

11 A Surprise for Mrs. Fox

Grandpa Joe was the oldest of the four grandparents. He was ninety-six and a half, and that is just about as old as anybody can be.

The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.

The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump.

REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes

Daddy," she said, "do you think you could buy me a book?" "A book?" he said. "What d'you want a flaming book for?" "To read, Daddy." "What's wrong with the telly, for heaven's sake? We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!

1 Here Comes Charlie

18 Still Waiting

This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket.

Extremely useful in the winter,' said Mr Wonka, rushing on. 'Hot ice cream warms you up no end in freezing weather. I also make hot ice cubes for putting in hot drinks. Hot ice cubes make hot drinks hotter.

He maintained that there was some kind of magic about English schooling and that the education it provided had caused the inhabitants of a small island to become a great nation and a great Empire and to produce the world's greatest literature. 'No child of mine', he kept saying, 'is going to school anywhere else but in England.

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. . . .

One could almost hear him saying, 'It's me! Here I come, the great man himself, the master of the house, the wage-earner, the one who makes it possible for the rest of you to live so well! Notice me and pay your respects!

Es otro campo de aterrizaje secreto?

Behind the moustache there lived an inflamed and savage face with a deeply corrugated brow that indicated a very limited intelligence. 'Life is a puzzlement,' the corrugated brow seemed to be saying, 'and the world is a dangerous place. All men are enemies and small boys are insects that will turn and bite you if you don't get them first and squash them hard.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.

They streaked past a black door. STOREROOM NUMBER 71, it said on it. WHIPS - ALL SHAPES AN SIZES. Whips!' cried Veruca Salt. What on earth do you use whips for? For whipping cream of course, said Wonka. 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! Row on please!

dinner – the Badgers, the Moles, the Rabbits and the Weasels. Tell her it will be a truly great feast. And tell her the