The best Quotes from Matilda

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Children & Childhood Parents

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Ernest Hemingway Joseph Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad Books Imagination Reading

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.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen.

Books Comforting Reading

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Matilda: "Do you want to heat about my first day at school?"
Mrs. Wormwood: "Yuck. I'd rather eat vegetables."

Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda - The Musical

I'm not worried. If people do scary things to you, you can just do scary things back.

Matilda Wormwood in Matilda - The Musical

Miss Honey's gonna teach us to tell stories. But I think I've got one already. I can feel it sort of wriggling in me. Like it's bursting to get out.

Matilda Wormwood in Matilda - The Musical

We're told we have to do what we're told but surely
Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty

Matilda Wormwood in Matilda - The Musical

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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

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If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Children & Childhood Books Reading

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there.

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Happiness

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

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Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Faith Magic

Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.

Writing

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Food

Willy Wonka: "I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!"

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I've heard tell, that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

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Imagination

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl in The Witches

Love

Life is more fun if you play games.

Roald Dahl in My Uncle Oswald

Playing

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

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Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Banksy in Cut It Out

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

Deborah Feldmann in Unorthodox

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

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