The best Quotes from Matilda

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Life is more fun if you play games.

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.

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.

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

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

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks us all and afterwards, some are stronger at the broken places.

Things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

The aim of writing is to make others see.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Well, there's one thing: they can't order me to stop dreaming.

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

The beginning is always dark.