Quotes from Roald Dahl

I IS MAKING MYSELF A MARVELUS PAIR OF SUCTION BOOTS AND WHEN I PUT THEM ON I IS ABEL TO WALK STRATE UP THE KITSHUN WALL AND ACROSS THE CEILING. WELL, I IS WALKING UPSIDE DOWN ON THE CEILING WEN MY BIG SISTER COMES IN AND SHE IS STARTING TO YELL AT ME AS SHE ALWAYS DOES, YELLING WOT ON EARTH IS YOU DOING UP THERE WALKING ON THE CEILING AND I LOOKS DOWN AT HER AND I SMILES AND I SAYS I TOLD YOU YOU WAS DRIVING ME UP THE WALL AND NOW YOU HAS DONE IT.

Oh, do shut up

Si uno se detenía a curiosear a través del cristal, podía ver las paredes forradas de arriba abajo con libros y, si abría la puerta y entraba, inmediatamente lo envolvía el hedor a cartón viejo y hojas de té que impregna el interior de toda librería de lance de Londres.

Casi siempre había dos o tres clientes, figuras sombrías ataviadas con abrigo y sombrero Trilby, que hurgaban en silencio entre colecciones de Jane Austen y Trollope, Dickens y George Elliot, con la esperanza de dar con una primera edición.

Una mañana de febrero con un tiempo de perros -contra la ventana de la oficina batía un aguanieve que resbalaba blanca y húmeda por el cristal- el señor Buggage y la señorita Tottle ocupaban, como era habitual, sus respectivos puestos, absortos, incluso uno podría decir fascinados, por su trabajo.

Here I come, you grizzly old grunion! You rotten old turnip! You filthy old frumpet!

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Now for me, writing the text of a short first-rate illustrated book for young children is the most difficult task of all, more difficult than a novel, short story, or full length children's book. If you find this hard to believe, I suggest you give it a try yourself.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

I IS ONLY AN EIGHT YEAR OLD LITTLE BOY BUT I IS GROWING A SPLENDID BUSHY BEARD AND ALL THE OTHER BOYS IS JALOUS.

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand,' Matilda said, 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that', Mrs Phelps said. 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Oh my gawd dad, what've you done to your hair?" the son shouted.

Adolph Knipe moved his feet on the carpet, and he watched the two small white hands of his chief, the nervous fingers playing with a paper clip, unbending it, straightening out the hairpin curves. He didn't like the man's hands. He didn't like his face either, with the tiny mouth and the narrow purple-coloured lips. It was unpleasant the way only the lower lip moved when he talked.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

He probably thought it was a woman. Whenever a young man gets depressed, everybody thinks it's a woman.

was about to have mine,' the Queen said, 'but Mary dropped it.

Alguna vez nos detenemos a pensar - se preguntó Matilda - dónde van nuestras profesoras cuando terminan de dar sus clases?

Çocuklara okur olmay? ve kitaplardan korkmak yerine, onlarla iliÅŸki kurmay? öÄŸretmek benim için bir tutku. Kitaplar göz korkutmamal?; kitaplar eÄŸlenceli, heyecanl? ve muhteÅŸem olmal?. Bir okur olmay? öÄŸrenmek müthiÅŸ bir kazançt?r.

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.

He found himself, almost immediately, up against the old truth that a machine, however ingenious, is incapable of original thought. It can handle no problems except those that resolve themselves into mathematical terms—problems that contain one, and only one, correct answer.

I'm wondering what to read next.

Qué libros más bellos leían! ¡Los niños que antaño leían!

Pero no te preocupes. Cena tranquilo. Charlie te esperará cuanto tiempo sea necesario y Wonka no abrirá la fábrica hasta que tú regreses. No, no te preocupes. No van a entrar sin ti.