Roald Dahl: Quotes about life

“My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"
"I don't mind at all" I said.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.”

“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”

“If you are good life is good.”

“Life is more fun if you play games.”

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”

“I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.”

“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”

“There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”

“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.”