The Best Roald Dahl quotes

There’s nothin’ you can get from a book that you can’t get from a television fastah! — Harry Wormwood

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books. — Roald Dahl

Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl

You chose books. I chose looks. — Roald Dahl

A BOOK?! WHAT D’YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?…WE’VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12–INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK! — Roald Dahl

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so. — Roald Dahl

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference? — Roald Dahl

No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends. — Roald Dahl

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that’s where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it’s full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. — Roald Dahl

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. — Roald Dahl

We’ve got a lovely telly with a twelve–inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You’re getting spoiled, my girl! — Roald Dahl

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important. — Roald Dahl

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. — Roald Dahl

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books. — Roald Dahl

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all! — Roald Dahl

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. — Roald Dahl

There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far. — Roald Dahl

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones. — Roald Dahl

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. — Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. — Roald Dahl

Life is more fun if you play games. — Roald Dahl

Words,’ he said, ‘is oh such a twitch–tickling problem to me all my life. — Roald Dahl

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be. — Roald Dahl

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. — Roald Dahl

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. — Roald Dahl

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do. — Roald Dahl

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. — Roald Dahl

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards. — Roald Dahl

Me don’t go boom boom in no ones panties. — Roald Dahl

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. — Roald Dahl

My dear young fellow,’ the Old–Green–Grasshopper said gently, ‘there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet. — Roald Dahl

So shines a good deed in a weary world. — Roald Dahl

She traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. — Roald Dahl

Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy–hum music. — Roald Dahl

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world. — 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. — Roald Dahl

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream. — Roald Dahl

Dreams is full of mystery and magic . . . . Do not try to understand them. — Roald Dahl

We is in Dream Country,’ the BFG said. ‘This is where all dreams is beginning. — Roald Dahl

We are the music makers, and We are the dreamers of dreams. — Roald Dahl

I’ve heard that what you imagine sometimes comes true. — Roald Dahl

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination. — Roald Dahl

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! — Roald Dahl

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like. — Roald Dahl

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves. — Roald Dahl

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour. — Roald Dahl

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can’t swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe. — Roald Dahl

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents. — Roald Dahl

I am totally convInced that most grown–ups have completely forgotten what Is It lIke to be a chIld between the ages of fIve and then… I can remember exactly what It was lIke. I am certaIn I can. — Roald Dahl

Don’t argue, my dear child, please don’t argue!’ cried Mr. Wonka. ‘It’s such a waste of precious time!’ — Roald Dahl

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. — Roald Dahl

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children–as long as you make them laugh as well. — Roald Dahl

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve. — Roald Dahl

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all. — Roald Dahl

Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. — Roald Dahl

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. — Roald Dahl

I look and smell,’ Aunt Sponge declared, ‘as lovely as a rose!’ — Roald Dahl

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this! — 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. — Roald Dahl

This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket. Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket. — Roald Dahl

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

But there was one other thing that the grown–ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there. — Roald Dahl

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. — Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful. — Roald Dahl