510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

What’s that?’ Sophie cried. ‘That is all the giants zippfizzing off to another country to guzzle human beans,’ the BFG.

When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

Charlie stood at the open door of the Elevator and stared into the swirling vapors. This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical. It was all so deathly quiet, so desolate and empty.

I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.’ A.

She might even – and this will make you jump – she might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment.

She believed she could so she did.

I go down to my little hut, where it’s tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

Never in a pig’s whistle!’ cried the BFG.

The watchers below could see the chocolate swishing around the boy in the pipe, and they could see it building up behind him in a solid mass, pushing against the blockage. The pressure was terrific. Something had to give. Something did give, and that something was Augustus. WHOOF! Up he shot again like a bullet in the barrel of a gun.