Roald Dahl Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
-- Roald DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin
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“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 DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK
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“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 DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.37, Penguin
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“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
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“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 but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.”
-- Roald DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2007). “Danny the Champion of the World”, p.16, Penguin
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“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
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“Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.”
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“Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.”
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“When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!”
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“A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.”
-- Roald DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.10, Penguin
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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
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“It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself”
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“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
-- Roald DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin
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“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”
-- Roald DahlSource : "Matilda/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 1996.
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“Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
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“Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.”
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“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”
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“I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?”
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“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
-- Roald DahlSource : Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin
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“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
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“Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.”
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“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”
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“The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.”
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“I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.”
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“There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”
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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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“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”
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“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
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“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”
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“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.”
-- Roald Dahl
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