Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

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

And then?" I said.

— Roald Dahl

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.

— Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

— Roald Dahl

It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

— Roald Dahl

There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!

— Roald Dahl

It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President," said the Postmaster General, "The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.

— Roald Dahl

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”

— Roald Dahl

Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

— Roald Dahl

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

— Roald Dahl

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it 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

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

— Roald Dahl

Dreams is very mystical things," the BFG said. "Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest professors is understanding them.

— Roald Dahl

Two rights don't equal a left.

— Roald Dahl

Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

— Roald Dahl

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

— Roald Dahl

Little Billy’s mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do. All the things he was allowed to do were boring. All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting. One of the things he NEVER NEVER was allowed to do, the most exciting of them all, was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond.

— Roald Dahl

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

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

— Roald Dahl