Quotes from Roald Dahl

When I was twelve, my mother said to me, 'I've entered you for Marlborough and Repton. Which would you like to go to?' Both were famous Public Schools, but that was all I knew about them. 'Repton,' I said. 'I'll go to Repton.' It was an easier word to say than Marlborough. 'Very well,' my mother said. 'You shall go to Repton.

She was talking very fast and very loudly to everyone, but it was not easy to hear all that she said because she was chewing so ferociously upon a piece of gum at the same time.

It's fizzing the wrong way!

dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she? 'That's a library book!' Matilda cried. 'It doesn't belong to me! I have to return

You can put an Everlasting Gobstopper in your mouth and you can suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and it will never get any smaller!

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. 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.

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If you looked closer still (hold your noses, ladies and gentlemen), if you peered deep into the moustachy bristles sticking out over his upper lip, you would probably see much larger objects that had escaped the wipe of his hand, things that had been there for months and months, like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a moldy old cornflake or even the slimy tail of a tinned sardine.

Now when something is growing very very slowly, it is almost impossible to notice it happening.

Mrs. Twit wasn't born ugly. She'd had quite a nice face when she was young. The ugliness had grown upon her year by year as she got older.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.

Oompa-Loompas

If she is a witch, the black dot will keep changing colour, and you will see fire and you will see ice

She seemed to know that neither crying nor sulking ever got anyone anywhere. The only sensible thing to do when you're attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.

The mountain was dark blue and all around it the sky was gushing and glistening with light.

The feet," she said. "Witches never have toes.

Your head SHRINKS into your neck… "And your neck SHRINKS into your body… "And your body SHRINKS into your legs… "And your legs SHRINK into your feet. And in the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.

Picture books

Mike Teavee asked. "Why not use Oompa-Loompas?" "Because," said Mr. Wonka, "Oompa-Loompas can't get walnuts out

their oars and stared up at the

lady who took it out once a year at the most. A terrific bargain.

Mr. Wonka knows exactly what he's doing.

All you do is to look At a page in this book Because that's where we always will be. No book ever ends When it's full of your friends The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.

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