510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

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

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.

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

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.