Top 30 R Dahl Quotes

#1. In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #1521
#2. Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #1607
#3. As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Robert A. Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #2069
#4. Good authour Good books

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #5707
#5. loading the dreams, the BFG and Sophie disappeared over the mountains on

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #6215
#6. Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming.

Elle Lothlorien

R Dahl Quotes #13065
#7. When he was sure that all his precious dreams had

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #30176
#8. As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #30912
#9. We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #39270
#10. There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #43623
#11. This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket. Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #46042
#12. Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #48011
#13. We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #56338
#14. Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #64143
#15. Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #70298
#16. She'd never felt more powerful. She wanted to do this again. In an hour. In the middle of the night. In the morning. She wanted to wake up like this, shaking and strong and whole and broken all at once.

Victoria Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #74092
#17. You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #76584
#18. A message To the 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! - Danny, the champion of the world.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #87337
#19. If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #94354
#20. 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.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #106261
#21. Edward, it will take time to find a willing and acceptable match, won't it? Decent men do not hang about at crossroads just waiting for ruined women to take them home.

Victoria Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #110085
#22. 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.

Roald Dahl

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#23. A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #120101
#24. Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Roald Dahl

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#25. If she's a lady, I'm a vernicious knid. (Eddie Albert in Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory)

Roald Dahl

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#26. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #126764
#27. Now What?" Kerensky said. "We wait," Dahl said. "For how long?" Kerensky said, " As long as dramatically appropriate," Dahl said.

John Scalzi

R Dahl Quotes #131572
#28. You'll notice that the Intrepid's inertial dampeners don't work as well in crisis situations, Dahl remembered Jenkins telling them. The ship could do hairpin turns and loop-de-loops any other time and you'd never notice. But whenever there's a dramatic event, there goes your footing.

John Scalzi

R Dahl Quotes #133350
#29. Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.

Matthew Crow

R Dahl Quotes #149571
#30. Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said.

Roald Dahl

R Dahl Quotes #157891

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