510 Quotes by Roald Dahl

When you’re writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interested your readers at all.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!

Sophie took the book out of his hand. ‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ she read aloud. ‘By Dahl’s Chickens,’ the BFG said. ‘By who?’ Sophie said.

This dream is continuing very nice. It has a very dory-hunky ending.

When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants – and DESERVES – is a parent who is SPARKY!

Human beans is killing each other much quicker than the giants is doing it.’ ‘But they don’t eat each other,’ Sophie said. ‘Giants isn’t eating each other either,’ the BFG said. ‘Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other.