Roald Dahl Quotes

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.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

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.

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

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Life is more fun if you play games.

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

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

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

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

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

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

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

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

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

A little magic can take you a long way.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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