Top 100 Roald Dahl Quotes
#1. loading the dreams, the BFG and Sophie disappeared over the mountains on
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#2. When he was sure that all his precious dreams had
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#3. As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,
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#4. We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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#5. There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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#6. If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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#7. A few weeks later, in the wood,
I came across Miss Riding Hood.
But what a change! No cloak of red,
No silly hood upon her head.
She said, 'Hello, and do please note
My lovely furry wolfskin coat.
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#8. The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
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#9. 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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#10. Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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#11. I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Ah, Piglet, you must never trust
Young ladies from the upper crust.
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#14. The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.
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#15. I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.
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#16. Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
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#17. The air became colder still and everything became paler
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#18. Good strong hair,' he was fond of saying, 'means there's a good strong brain underneath.' 'Like Shakespeare,' Matilda had once said to him. 'Like who?' 'Shakespeare, Daddy.' 'Was he brainy?' 'Very, Daddy.' 'He had masses of hair, did he?' 'He was bald, Daddy.
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#19. Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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#20. *Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Notice them.
*No book ever ends when it's full of friends.
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#21. Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.
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#22. Matilda said nothing. She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season.
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#23. Your daughter's a cheat and a liar, the father said,
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#24. I'm afraid the camera got smashed against the side of the Space Hotel, Mr. President, Shuckworth replied. The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.
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#25. 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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#26. A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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#27. All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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#28. I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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#29. A newt, she decided, was a useful thing to have around.
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#30. If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
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#31. 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 ...
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#32. Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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#33. 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.
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#34. The Alexander Technique works ... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
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#36. As though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice,
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#37. 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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#38. that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen!
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#39. It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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#41. You're cheating people who trust you.
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#42. Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.
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#43. If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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#44. I signaled the bus-driver and he stopped the bus for me right outside the cottage, and I flew down the steps of the bus straight into the arms of the waiting mother.
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#46. the world is a scary place for such a small child
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#47. I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!
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#48. The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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#49. Get up at once, you lazy little beast!
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#50. Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
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#51. There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?
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#52. What I mean and what I say is two different things, the BFG announced rather grandly.
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#53. It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
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#54. They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.
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#55. We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
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#56. Mice, I felt pretty certain, all like each other. People don't.
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#57. I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
-Grandpa Joe
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#58. I can see you is not born last week.
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#59. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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#60. A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR? ... WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
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#61. Hey, my spaghetti's moving!" cried Mr. Twit, poking around in it with his fork.
"It's a new kind," Mrs. Twit said, taking a mouthful from her own plate which of course had no worms. "It's called Squiggly Spaghetti. It's delicious. Eat it up while it's nice and hot.
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#62. There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!
-Harry Wormwood
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#63. And thus the journey ended. But the travelers lived on.
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#64. There's three of them in nightshirts! Two old women and one
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#65. Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.
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#66. The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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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#69. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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#70. When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.
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#71. Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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#72. Lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say
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#73. I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.
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#74. Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy.
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#75. Dreams is full of mystery and magic ... Do not try to understand them.
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#76. Don't gobblefunk around with words.
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#77. My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
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#78. 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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#79. Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables,
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#80. By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
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#81. The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda
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#82. All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
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#83. The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
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#84. I cannot be helping it if I sometimes is saying things a little squiggly. I
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#85. I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
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#86. Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones.
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#87. To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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#88. Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
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#89. Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
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#90. 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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#91. This Giant had some sort of magic in his legs.
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#92. Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.
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#93. Badger: The cuss you are.
Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?
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#94. Anyone can ask questions," said Mr. Wonka. "It's the answers that count.
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#95. Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food.
"You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.
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#96. He resembled, to an extraordinary degree, an asparagus.
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#97. Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
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#98. There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.
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#99. And when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
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#100. When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
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