510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!

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

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.