Roald Dahl citations

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“It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself”

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

“I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest. And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.”

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

“You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!”

“Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.”

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.”

“The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.”

“Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?
She'd found it easy, being pretty
To hitch a ride into the city.”

“We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.”

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

“I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.”

“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.”

“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.
‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.”

“There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!"
-Harry Wormwood”

“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.”

“The snozberries taste like snozberries!”

“The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.”

“In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.”

“Obscurity is never a virtue.”

“The little pig began to pray
But Wolfie blew his house away.
He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham!
Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"
And though he ate the pig quite fast,
He carefully kept the tail till last.”

“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”

“You is getting nosier than a parker.”

“I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?”

“Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!”

“When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.”

“It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.”

“Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.”

“my candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light”