510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!? screamed Veruca.

Dear children far across the sea, How nice of you to write to me. I love to hear the things you say When you are miles and miles away. All children, and I think I’m right, Are nicer when they’re out of sight!

There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this which lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.

But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES.

The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.

It is most unlikely. But – here comes the big “but” – not impossible.

It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man’s beard in the hedges, and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along. There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t even started wondering about yet.