510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

Everyone is born. But not everyone is born the same. One way or another though, every human being is unique, for better or worse.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.

I’m wondering what to read next.

I look and smell,’ Aunt Sponge declared, ’as lovely as a rose!

The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,’ the BFG said.

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.

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.