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“Je n'approuve pas le meurtre, dit la reine.
- Mais ce sont eux-mêmes des meurtriers, fit remarquer le chef de l'armée de terre.
- Ce n'est pas une raison pour suivre leur exemple, répliqua la reine, ce ne sont pas deux torts conjugués qui feront valoir le bon droit.
- Et deux bons droits ne font pas un bon gauche! s'exclama le BGG.”

Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

The BFG

Roald Dahl: Citations en anglais

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

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“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

“Two wrongs don't make a right.”

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Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

Variante: Two rights don't equal a left.
Source: The BFG (1982)

“Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”

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Roald Dahl livre Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)

“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

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“Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”

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Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

Source: The BFG

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”

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Roald Dahl livre Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Variante: So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“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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Roald Dahl livre The Twits

Source: The Twits

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”

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Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

Source: The BFG

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

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Roald Dahl livre The Witches

"The Heart of a Mouse"
Source: The Witches (1983)

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

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“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

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“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”

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Source: Fantastic Mr. Fox

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”

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"Goodbye school" in Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it 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.”

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Roald Dahl livre My Uncle Oswald

Source: My Uncle Oswald (1979)

“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”

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Roald Dahl livre Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Variante: We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“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.”

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Roald Dahl livre The Witches

Source: The Witches

“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”

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“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...

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

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

“We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”

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Roald Dahl livre Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Variante: We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Source: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

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Roald Dahl livre The Minpins

The Minpins (1991)