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Quotes About Roald Dahl

A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.
~ Roald Dahl
But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES.
~ Roald Dahl
listening intently. He shook his head. 'There is no dream in here
~ Roald Dahl
I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!
~ Roald Dahl
There's three of them in nightshirts! Two old women and one
~ Roald Dahl
But Goldilocks, like many freaks, Does not appreciate antiques.
~ Roald Dahl
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as they finish the book.
~ Roald Dahl
And on the pillow of the bed lay the head
~ Roald Dahl
We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.
~ Roald Dahl
I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?' 'My name is Sophie,' Sophie said, hardly
~ Roald Dahl
I is a dreamblowing giant," the BFG said. "(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.
~ Roald Dahl
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.
~ Roald Dahl
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!
~ Roald Dahl
we might have expected a fishy story from a man with a name like haddock, goff said.
~ Roald Dahl
You mean to tell me,' I said, 'that every time I pleasure a young lady, I shoot into her two thousand million spermatozoa?' 'Absolutely.' 'All squiggling and squirming and thrashing about?' 'Of course.' 'No wonder it gives her a charge,' I said. A.
~ Roald Dahl
I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?
~ Roald Dahl
mornings, Charlie could see great slabs of chocolate piled up high in the shop
~ Roald Dahl
Not really," she answered. "Although I have heard it said that over there the witches are able to make the grown-ups eat their own children." "Never!
~ Roald Dahl
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.
~ Roald Dahl
11 A Surprise for Mrs. Fox
~ Roald Dahl
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.
~ Roald Dahl
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.
~ Roald Dahl
The feet," she said. "Witches never have toes.
~ Roald Dahl
Mike Teavee asked. "Why not use Oompa-Loompas?" "Because," said Mr. Wonka, "Oompa-Loompas can't get walnuts out
~ Roald Dahl