Roald Dahl Quotes - Page 5

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• Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

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  Years, Onions, Sage

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.80, Penguin

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• Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

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  Wonderful, Shows

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Danny the Champion of the World”, p.194, Penguin

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

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  Book, Writing, Details

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.10, Penguin

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• Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

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  Children, Giving, Lord

  Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• 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.

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  Simple, Thinking, Routine

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

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  Clever, Kids, Needs

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• Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

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  Country, Real, People

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• 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.

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  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

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  Girl, Husband, Book

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

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  Moments, Glory, Brilliance

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.41, Penguin

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• I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

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  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.99, Penguin

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• I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.

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  Children, Grandmother, Times Like These

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• 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.

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  Life, Lucky, Might

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.33, Penguin

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• There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

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  Wise, Clever, Memories

  Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

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  Love You, Long, Mind

  Roald Dahl (1983). “The Witches”, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Book, Looks, Pages

  Roald Dahl (1994). “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, Puffin HC

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• Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

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  Missing, Ridiculous, Married

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

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  Character, Mean, Generosity

  "New Statesman" Magazine, 1983.

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• I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.

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  Kings, Cheer, Thinking

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• A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

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  Giants, Ears, Littles

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.63, Penguin

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• To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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  Black, Gold, Coal

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.19, Penguin

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• Good writing is essentially rewriting.

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  Writing, Rewriting, Good Writing

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• When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

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  Morning, School, Boys

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• Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

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  Army, Blow, Bangs

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.35, Penguin

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• If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

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  Lord, Walks, Skates

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