Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Father, Real

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

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• Don't gobblefunk around with words.

  Roald Dahl

  Funny, Twits, Marvellous

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

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

  Roald Dahl

  Advice, Twits, Valuable

  "Fictional character: Mr. F.F. "Foxy" Fox". "Fantastic Mr. Fox", 2009.

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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.

  Roald Dahl

  Giving Up, Pain, War

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

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

  Roald Dahl

  July, Wish, Calendars

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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.

  Roald Dahl

  Motivational, Wall, Book

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

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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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  Imagination, Wish, Serious

  "Fictional character: Willy Wonka:". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• Life is more fun if you play games.

  Roald Dahl

  Fun, Playing Games, Life Is

  Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.128, Penguin

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• If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

  Roald Dahl

  Years, Looks, Ugly

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.150, Penguin

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• We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.152, Penguin

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• (Television) rots the senses in the head!
  It kills imagination dead!
  It clogs and clutters up the mind!
  It makes a child so dull and blind
  He can no longer understand
  A fantasy, a fairyland!
  His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
  His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
  He cannot think -he only sees!

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

  Roald Dahl, “Television”

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• Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

  Roald Dahl

  Childhood, Secret, Complicated

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection: Six Marvellous Stories Including The BFG and Five Other Stories”, p.299, Penguin UK

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

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at 50" by Lucy Mangan, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.

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• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Strong, Book, Sea

  "Matilda". Book by Roald Dahl, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 1988.

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• A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Growing Up, Fun

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

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• A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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  Freedom, Stupid, Daze

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.79, Penguin

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• Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.

  Roald Dahl

  Sex, Naughty, Practice

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• My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

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  World, Green, Trying New Things

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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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  Believe, Matter, Beans

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.88, Penguin

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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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• By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Stories, Fifty

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• If you are good life is good.

  Roald Dahl

  Good Life, Life Is Good, Life Is

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• 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.

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  Reading, Book, People

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

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• When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Book, Writing

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