The best Quotes by Roald Dahl

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.

Matilda

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.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Happiness

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

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

Faith Magic

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.

Writing

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.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Food

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

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Imagination

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.

Matilda

Children & Childhood Parents

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

The Witches

Love

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.

Matilda

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.

Matilda

Books Comforting Reading

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

Matilda

Reading

Life is more fun if you play games.

My Uncle Oswald

Playing

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

Matilda

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Daily Routine

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

Magic

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Character Appearance Morality

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Humor & Comedy

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

January July

Quotes about Roald Dahl

I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from 'Don't Look Now' and 'Eureka.' So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.

Anjelica Huston

The Witches

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I wouldn't give up my family for anything. Not for all the chocolate in the world.

Charlie Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Food Chocolate

Why would I wanna send a person? They don't taste very good at all.

Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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

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

Banksy in Cut It Out

Reading

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

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

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

Ernest Hemingway

Trust

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

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Mother

The aim of writing is to make others see.

Joseph Conrad

Writing

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

Spring Change Magic

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Imagination

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

Anjelica Huston

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

You know the thing about good food? It brings folks together from all walks of life.

James in The Princess and the Frog

Food

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

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Children & Childhood Parents

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