Roald Dahl quotes - page 2

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. (Roald Dahl)

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

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I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

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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. The chance had to be there.

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The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

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The snozberries taste like snozberries!

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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

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In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

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You is getting nosier than a parker.

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

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Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you. (Roald Dahl)

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

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Mr. Wonka: "Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.

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We must hurry!' said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!

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I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

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Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

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I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe.

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There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

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It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself.

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I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest. And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

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Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy. (Roald Dahl)

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

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We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

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There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood.

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I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

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Roald Dahl

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Occupation: British Writer
Born: September 13, 1916
Died: November 23, 1990
Quotes count: 142
Wikipedia: Roald Dahl

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