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I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
— Roald Dahl
it is like choosing from a menu.
— Roald Dahl
democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;
— Robert A. Dahl
If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it.
— Roald Dahl
I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!
— Roald Dahl
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
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.
— Robert A. Dahl
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.
— Roald Dahl
Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long ...
— Roald Dahl
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
— Roald Dahl
It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
— Roald Dahl
You should be able to make a scene come alive in the reader's mind. Not everybody has this ability. It is a gift, and you either have it or you don't.
— Roald Dahl
Despite the man's intimidating mountain-man looks, Wallace dated men, women and some people who seemed to skate between genders.
— Victoria Dahl
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
— Roald Dahl
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!
-Harry Wormwood — Roald Dahl
-Harry Wormwood — Roald Dahl
Children should never have baths,' my grandmother said. 'It's a dangerous
habit.'
'I agree, Grandmamma. — Roald Dahl
habit.'
'I agree, Grandmamma. — Roald Dahl
What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!
— Roald Dahl
Your daughter's a cheat and a liar, the father said,
— Roald Dahl
Follow me down, Alice Faye Dahl. I know the way.
— Elle Lothlorien
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
— Roald Dahl
A little magic can take you a long way.
— Roald Dahl
I like enthusiasts of any kind.
— Roald Dahl
The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled. 'I is feeling the teeth sticking into my anklet!
— Roald Dahl
The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
— Roald Dahl
I think he could handle being used. It would be good for him. He's having trouble sleeping.
— Victoria Dahl
No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.
— Roald Dahl
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
If she's a lady, I'm a vernicious knid. (Eddie Albert in Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory)
— Roald Dahl
*Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Notice them.
*No book ever ends when it's full of friends. — Roald Dahl
*No book ever ends when it's full of friends. — Roald Dahl
If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
— Evangeline Lilly
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
You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.
— Victoria Dahl
I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.
— Roald Dahl
I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
— Roald Dahl
Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
— Roald Dahl
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
— Roald Dahl
Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue!" cried Mr. Wonka. "It's such a waste of precious time!
— Roald Dahl
- I am a mouse! You wait till my father hears about this!
- He may think it's an improvement. — Roald Dahl
- He may think it's an improvement. — Roald Dahl
Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.
— Roald Dahl
But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It's right here. You've just finished reading it.
— Roald Dahl
What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
— Roald Dahl
The Alexander Technique works ... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
— Roald Dahl
let your love out
— Roald Dahl
With enthusiasm anything is possible,
— Arlene Dahl
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
— Roald Dahl
You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.
— Louise Dahl-Wolfe
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
— Dave Eggers
Too much rouge is a sign of despair.
— Arlene Dahl
There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
— Roald Dahl
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book.
— Roald Dahl
The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.
— Roald Dahl
I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.
— Roald Dahl
I can see you is not born last week.
— Roald Dahl
We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
— Roald Dahl
Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.
— Robert A. Dahl
If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
— Roald Dahl
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
— Roald Dahl
Eschew all those beastly adjectives ...
— Roald Dahl
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
— Roald Dahl
Aw, hell, Tessa. I was in ninth grade. By the time I got to the part where I imagined a girl without panties on, it was all over.
— Victoria Dahl
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.
— Roald Dahl
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
— Nnedi Okorafor
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
— Roald Dahl
as much as the next man,
— Roald Dahl
I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!
— Roald Dahl