Roald Dahl Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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.

• 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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.148, Penguin

• In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

  Roald Dahl

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

• Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Long, Said

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

• 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

  Father, Hands, Elbows

• Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Perfect, Diaries

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