Roald Dahl Quotes

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

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

  Roald Dahl

  World, Changing The World, Power To Change

  "Matilda/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Reading, Ifs

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• I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

  Roald Dahl

  Kindness, Thinking, Numbers

  Roald Dahl (2017). “The Roald Dahl Treasury”, p.601, Penguin UK

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  Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

  Roald Dahl

  Dream, Reality, Dreamer

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• A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

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  Small Numbers, Life Is, Incidents

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin

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• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

  Roald Dahl

  Funny, Wisdom, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.84, Penguin

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

  Roald Dahl

  Kindness, Simple, Mind

  Roald Dahl (2017). “The Roald Dahl Treasury”, p.601, Penguin UK

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• There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

  Roald Dahl

  Imagination, Compare, Knows

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• (Television) rots the senses in the head!
  It kills imagination dead!
  It clogs and clutters up the mind!
  It makes a child so dull and blind
  He can no longer understand
  A fantasy, a fairyland!
  His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
  His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
  He cannot think -he only sees!

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

  Roald Dahl, “Television”

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• I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

  Roald Dahl

  Life, Inspiring, Passion

  Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.37, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Risk, Looks

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

  Roald Dahl

  Ifs

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Roald Dahl's Scrumdiddlyumptious Story Collection: Six Marvellous Stories Including The BFG and Five Other Stories”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Ends

  Roald Dahl (2009). “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, p.77, Penguin

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• Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

  Roald Dahl

  Philosophical, Important, You Choose

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• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

  Roald Dahl

  Eye, Secret Places, Magic In The World

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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

  Roald Dahl

  Eye, Fake Smile, Feelings

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Danny the Champion of the World”, p.16, Penguin

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• 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

  Motivational, Wall, Book

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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• 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 with his mouth but the eyes stay the same. It's sure to be bogus.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Father, Real

  "Danny, the Champion of the World". Book by Roald Dahl, 1975.

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• A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

  Roald Dahl

  Freedom, Stupid, Daze

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• Life is more fun if you play games.

  Roald Dahl

  Fun, Playing Games, Life Is

  Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.128, Penguin

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• And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

  Roald Dahl

  Worry, Bits

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.159, Penguin

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