510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

Whips!” cried Veruca Salt. “What on earth do you use whips for?” “For whipping cream, of course,” said Mr. Wonka. “How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night! Row on, please!” They.

It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Good strong hair,’ he was fond of saying, ‘means there’s a good strong brain underneath.’ ‘Like Shakespeare,’ Matilda had once said to him. ‘Like who?’ ‘Shakespeare, Daddy.’ ‘Was he brainy?’ ‘Very, Daddy.’ ‘He had masses of hair, did he?’ ‘He was bald, Daddy.

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.

Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Frobscottle is sweet and jumbly!

If it’s by an American it’s certain to be filth. That’s all they write about.