Top 73 Matilda's Quotes
#1. So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
Roald Dahl
#2. Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.
Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#3. And as they spoke - lo and behold! - there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout figure dressed in rusty black; and she said, 'Good evening, Mr and Mrs Brown, I am Nurse Matilda.
Christianna Brand
#4. And occasionally a sweet chestnut. Miss Honey, wishing to change the subject for the moment, gave the names of all these to Matilda and taught her how to recognize them by the shape of their leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks. Matilda took all this
Roald Dahl
#5. I like this skirt. Makes a guy wonder just how to get a girl out of it.
Amy Andrews
#6. You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
Roald Dahl
#7. One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#8. I don't know what she thinks a Matilda looks like, but I've always thought that I look a little like Gene Wilder, except with longer hair and a vagina.
Melissa DeCarlo
#9. 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
#10. Better than an orgasm? Clearly the woman was having lousy orgasms.
Amy Andrews
#11. Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.
Roald Dahl
#12. Peeing on a stick is not as easy as it sounds! #WhenRavensFall
Matilda Wren
#13. I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
Roald Dahl
#14. Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom
the Church.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#15. If you're not too busy this evening, why don't you bring your soft shoes and your pads over to officers' row and we'll go waltzing Matilda? Say about eight o'clock." "Yes, sir." "That's not an order, that's an invitation. If you really are slowing down,
Robert A. Heinlein
#16. Matilda shook her head. "Damn teens and hormones. At least you own up to it. Amber doesn't believe me when I tell her half the kids here are sexually active.""More than half," Decker said, smiling.
-dark summer
Lizzy Ford
#17. For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.
Hilaire Belloc
#18. Not even an advancing All Blacks haka could have dragged him away from the swing of her ass
Amy Andrews
#19. 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.
Roald Dahl
#20. Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
Laura Matilda Towne
#21. Michelle: I read about him in the news last week. So hot. I refuse to believe anyone that good looking could be evil. Matilda: Eh, Justin Bieber? Michelle: Bieber doesn't count. He's more like a semi-pretty lesbian.
L. H. Cosway
#22. There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#23. You've shaped me into this woman I never wanted to be. There are bits of myself I don't even like.
Amy Andrews
#24. Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda
Devon Monk
#25. I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
Bertie Carvel
#26. This book could corrupt or debauch. It would not make suitable reading for Boy Rangers, Aunt Matilda, or those contemplating a life of celibacy. - Eric Bishop-Potter on "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me.
Eric Bishop-Potter
#27. Too much sleep is bad for your health, Matilda." She slipped a freshly made ball of butter into a stone crock. "It must be such a grippe, a sleeping sickness.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#28. No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled
Roald Dahl
#29. As if your ego needs any more stroking. If it took form right now it'd be a giant hard on.
Amy Andrews
#30. Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#31. Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#33. The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#34. This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight
Jennifer Crusie
#35. The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda
Roald Dahl
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. If you think I haven't been fantasising about your mouth around my cock, then you're crazy
Amy Andrews
#39. The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#40. I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario Cuomo
#41. History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#42. I tackle guys three times your size for a living. I can handle whatever you throw at me.
Amy Andrews
#43. The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them ... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#44. 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
#45. I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.
Matthew James Thomas
#46. 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.
Roald Dahl
#47. Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#48. While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#49. It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.
Tom Waits
#50. That look he was giving her right now made everything stand still...
Matilda Wren
#51. If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
Mara Wilson
#52. 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
#53. Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks.
Sharon Kay Penman
#54. A saint? Tanner Stone was the anti-Christ.
Amy Andrews
#55. 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
#56. This was screwing. One hundred percent pissed-off, nail-raking, neck-biting, wall-fucking screwing.
Amy Andrews
#57. 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
#58. What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!
Roald Dahl
#59. You treated me like a fool and you played with my heart, like it was one of your damn footballs.
Amy Andrews
#60. Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous ...
Roald Dahl
#61. How dare he look so freaking smug like he'd just ticked an item off a sex list? Going down on Matilda. Check.
Amy Andrews
#62. 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.
Mara Wilson
#63. I did, Matilda. I might tell you that you're mine, but you need to understand that it goes both ways. I belong to you, too.
L. H. Cosway
#64. Good evening, children,' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.
Christianna Brand
#65. The love of my life came not
As love unto others is cast;
For mine was a secret wound--
But the wound grew a pearl, at last.
Edith Matilda Thomas
#66. Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#68. Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
Roald Dahl
#69. 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
#72. 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.
Roald Dahl
#73. Tanner Stone was way too sure of himself. Too many women had been letting him have it all his own way.
Amy Andrews
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