Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 7

Quotes about:

• I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

  Roald Dahl

  Greed, Want

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.71, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

• Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

  Roald Dahl

  Home, School, Appreciate

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.98, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

  Roald Dahl

  Needs, Daze, Want

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

  85 Copy quote

• I'm wondering what to read next.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Next, Wonder

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Esio Trot”, p.84, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

• I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

  Roald Dahl

  Boys, Years, Littles

  5 Copy quote

• You is getting nosier than a parker.

  Roald Dahl

  7 Copy quote

• Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Long, Laughing

  5 Copy quote

• My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Hands, Elbows

  58 Copy quote

• The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

  Roald Dahl

  Laughter, Fall, Broken

  10 Copy quote

• ...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

  Roald Dahl

  Secret

  6 Copy quote

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

  Roald Dahl

  Alive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.102, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

• You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Differences, Looks

  6 Copy quote

• Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.

  Roald Dahl

  Art, Perfection, Risk

  90 Copy quote

• I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Delight, Mirth

  13 Copy quote

• The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

  Roald Dahl

  Foxes, Badgers

  "Fictional character: Mr. Fox". "Fantastic Mr. Fox", www.imdb.com. October 14, 2009.

  8 Copy quote

• Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Heart, Tanks

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

  9 Copy quote

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

  Roald Dahl

  Surface, Below The Surface, Absolutely Nothing

  7 Copy quote

• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

  Roald Dahl

  Memories, School, Ties

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.28, Penguin

  40 Copy quote

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

  Roald Dahl

  Cities, White, Snow

  5 Copy quote

• When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, West, 8 Mile

  8 Copy quote

• I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

  Roald Dahl

  Past, Bombs, Down And

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.102, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

• Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

  Roald Dahl

  Believe, Thinking, Giants

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.31, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

• The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

  Roald Dahl

  Queens, Sophie, Maids

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.138, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

• All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

  Roald Dahl

  Senior, School, Boys

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.137, Penguin

  17 Copy quote

• The snozberries taste like snozberries!

  Roald Dahl

  Taste

  "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Book by Roald Dahl, January 17, 1964.

  5 Copy quote

Page 7 of 8

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin