510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

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

I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.

She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding.

Here I come, you grizzly old grunion! You rotten old turnip! You filthy old frumpet!

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

How long could we allow this beastTo gorge and guzzle, feed and feastOn everything he wanted to?Great Scott! It simply wouldn't do!However long this pig might live,We're positive he'd never giveEven the smallest bit of funOr happiness to anyone.

There's no earthly way of knowingWhich direction they are going!There's no knowing where they're rowing,Or which way the river's flowing!Not a speck of light is showing,So the danger must be growing,For the rowers keep on rowing, And they're certainly not showingAny signs that they are slowing. . . .

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.