Roald Dahl quotes - page 5

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself. (Roald Dahl)
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. View quote
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Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well! View quote
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It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President," said the Postmaster General, "The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number. View quote
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Two rights don't equal a left. View quote
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Don't gobblefunk around with words. View quote
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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. View quote
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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. (Roald Dahl)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you. View quote
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. View quote
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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. View quote
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I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact. View quote
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There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards. View quote
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY! View quote
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Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me? View quote
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Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books. (Roald Dahl)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. View quote
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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. View quote
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