Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 3

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• lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say

  Roald Dahl

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• Obscurity is never a virtue.

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  Obscurity, Virtue

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• ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

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  Girl, Children, Wall

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• Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

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  Book, Reading, Wonderful

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

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• The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

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  Pain, Healing, Health

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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. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. 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, Thinking

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• Matilda said, "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.

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  Crazy, Half, Want

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

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  Writing, Important, Modesty

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.41, Penguin

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• Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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  World, Fabulous, Hours

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.160, Penguin

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• What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

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  Mean, Two, Different

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.45, Penguin

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• Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

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  America, Pirate, What If

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.24, Penguin

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• I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

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  Trying, Wheels, Littles

  Roald Dahl (1968). “Selected stories of Roald Dahl”

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• 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.

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  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Two wrongs don't make a right.

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  Revenge, Humorous, Math

  Roald Dahl (2016). “The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant: The BFG in Scots”, p.145, Black & White Publishing

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• Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

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  Adjectives, Beastly

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• careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

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  Fighting, Monsters, Might

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• Good writing is essentially rewriting.

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  Writing, Rewriting, Good Writing

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• Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

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  Candy, Dandy

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• There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

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  Weather, Apples, Pie

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.42, Penguin

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

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  Grandpa, Sometimes, Imagine

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• Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

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  Important, Said, Left

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.34, Penguin

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• The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

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  Hours, Desks, Force

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

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  Weed, Stupid, Ignorant

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

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  Hell, Businessman, Absolutes

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• Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

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  Age, Born, Bigger

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Twits”, p.11, Penguin

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