510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

The little pig began to prayBut Wolfie blew his house away.He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham!Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"And though he ate the pig quite fast,He carefully kept the tail till last.

There's no earthly way of knowingWhich direction we are goingThere's no knowing where we're rowingOr which way the river's flowingIs it raining, is it snowing?Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh!Not a speck of light is showingSo the danger must be growingAre the fires of Hell a-glowing?Is the grisly reaper mowing?Yes! The danger must be growingFor the rowers keep on rowingAnd they're certainly not showingAny signs that they are slowing!A-aa-aaa-aaaah!

Eve dönüşün keyfini çıkarmak için evden uzaklaşmaya değer.

I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement

Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

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

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

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.

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.