Roald Dahl Quotes

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

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  World, Changing The World, Power To Change

  "Matilda/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

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  Kindness, Thinking, Numbers

  Roald Dahl (2017). “The Roald Dahl Treasury”, p.601, Penguin UK

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• If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

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  Book, Reading, Ifs

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

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  Small Numbers, Life Is, Incidents

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin

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

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  Funny, Wisdom, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.84, Penguin

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• We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

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  Dream, Reality, Dreamer

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

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  Kindness, Simple, Mind

  Roald Dahl (2017). “The Roald Dahl Treasury”, p.601, Penguin UK

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• There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

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  Imagination, Compare, Knows

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• 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

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  Life, Inspiring, Passion

  Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.37, Penguin

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• The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

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  Children, Risk, Looks

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• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

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  Eye, Secret Places, Magic In The World

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• Don't gobblefunk around with words.

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  Funny, Twits, Marvellous

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.28, Penguin

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• You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

  Roald Dahl

  Ifs

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection: Six Marvellous Stories Including The BFG and Five Other Stories”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

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  Philosophical, Important, You Choose

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• I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it, so watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you with his mouth but the eyes stay the same. It's sure to be bogus.

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  Children, Father, Real

  "Danny, the Champion of the World". Book by Roald Dahl, 1975.

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• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

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  Motivational, Wall, Book

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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

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  Eye, Fake Smile, Feelings

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Danny the Champion of the World”, p.16, Penguin

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• A little magic can take you a long way.

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  Long, Magic, Littles

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.161, Penguin

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• The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

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  Inspiring, Book, Secret Places

  Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

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  Secret, Said, Very Good

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.38, Penguin

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• Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

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  Giving Up, Pain, War

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two”, p.360, Penguin UK

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