Roald Dahl Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

A little magic can take you a long way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

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

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

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

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

Life is more fun if you play games.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.