Best Matilda Quotes

#1. I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.

Mara Wilson

#2. Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks.

Sharon Kay Penman

#3. Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

Hilaire Belloc

#4. 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.

Roald Dahl

#5. 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 ...

Roald Dahl

#6. Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Roald Dahl

#7. You treated me like a fool and you played with my heart, like it was one of your damn footballs.

Amy Andrews

#8. This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.

Roald Dahl

#9. Better than an orgasm? Clearly the woman was having lousy orgasms.

Amy Andrews

#10. Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

Mara Wilson

#11. You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

Roald Dahl

#12. I like this skirt. Makes a guy wonder just how to get a girl out of it.

Amy Andrews

#13. Lake breathed out a happy sigh as she approached the row filled with guns. Matilda was my first, but ladies, you know how to make a girl want to stray.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#14. The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want,' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

Christianna Brand

#15. The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda

Roald Dahl