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Roald Dahl, né le 13 septembre 1916 à Llandaff au pays de Galles et mort le 23 novembre 1990 à Oxford en Angleterre, est un écrivain britannique et scénariste, auteur de romans et de nouvelles, qui s'adressent aussi bien aux enfants qu'aux adultes, mais mieux connu pour ses ouvrages de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse.

Ses œuvres les plus célèbres sont Charlie et la Chocolaterie , adapté plusieurs fois au cinéma, ainsi que des recueils de nouvelles : Bizarre ! Bizarre ! qui obtint le prix Edgar-Allan-Poe en 1954, et Kiss Kiss . Wikipedia  

✵ 13. septembre 1916 – 23. novembre 1990
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Roald Dahl Citations

“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

“I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

“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.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

“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?”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

“If you are good life is good.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

“Life is more fun if you play games.”

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Roald Dahl livre My Uncle Oswald

Source: My Uncle Oswald

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

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Roald Dahl livre Boy

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

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

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

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

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Roald Dahl livre Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“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.”

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Roald Dahl livre Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“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.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

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

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

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

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Roald Dahl livre Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

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Roald Dahl livre The Twits

Source: The Twits

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

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Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

Source: The BFG

“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!”

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Roald Dahl livre Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny, the Champion of the World (1975)
Contexte: A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no 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.”

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Roald Dahl livre Matilda

Source: Matilda

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

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Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

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

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Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

Source: The BFG

“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.”

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Roald Dahl livre Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

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“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?”

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Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

Source: The BFG

“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.”

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Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“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.”

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“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.”

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Roald Dahl livre The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Source: 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.”

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Roald Dahl Le Bon Gros Géant

Source: The BFG (1982)

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

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Roald Dahl livre Boy

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

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