510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.

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

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

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

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

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

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

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