Roald Dahl citations

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“A little magic can take you a long way.”

“You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.

"Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”

“Here it is,' Nigel said.
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'
How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?”

“If you are good life is good.”

“Life is more fun if you play games.”

“We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.”

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

“I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
-Grandpa Joe”

“Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.”

“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.”

“Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.”

“I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.”

“Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.”

“What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.”

“Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”

“When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!”

“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

“I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.”

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

“But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.”

“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”

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

“A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?”

“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”

“I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.”

“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.”

“The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.”

“If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.”

“When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.”