“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
“Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
— 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
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
— Roald Dahl
“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
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
— Roald Dahl
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
— Roald Dahl
“Life is more fun if you play games.”
— Roald Dahl
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
— Roald Dahl
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
– Roald Dahl
“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
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
– Roald Dahl
“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”
– Roald Dahl
“When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.”
– Roald Dahl