Roald Dahl Quote
On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.'Can you hear him, Danny?''Yes,' I said,'That is a bullfrog calling to his wife. He does it by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.''What is a dewlap?' I asked.'It's the loose skin on his throat. He can blow it up just like a balloon.''What happens when his wife hears him?''She goes hopping over to him. She is very happy to have been invited. But I'll tell you something very funny about the old bullfrog. He often becomes so pleased with the sound of his own voice that his wife has to nudge him several times before he'll stop his burping and turn round to hug her.'That made me laugh.'Dont laugh too loud,' he said, twinkling at me with his eyes. 'We men are not so very different from the bullfrog.
On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.'Can you hear him, Danny?''Yes,' I said,'That is a bullfrog calling to his wife. He does it by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.''What is a dewlap?' I asked.'It's the loose skin on his throat. He can blow it up just like a balloon.''What happens when his wife hears him?''She goes hopping over to him. She is very happy to have been invited. But I'll tell you something very funny about the old bullfrog. He often becomes so pleased with the sound of his own voice that his wife has to nudge him several times before he'll stop his burping and turn round to hug her.'That made me laugh.'Dont laugh too loud,' he said, twinkling at me with his eyes. 'We men are not so very different from the bullfrog.
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About Roald Dahl
Dahl was born in Wales to affluent Norwegian immigrant parents, and spent most of his life in England. He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He became a fighter pilot and, subsequently, an intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for children and for adults, and he became one of the world's best-selling authors. His awards for contribution to literature include the 1983 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the British Book Awards' Children's Author of the Year in 1990. In 2008, The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2021, Forbes ranked him the top-earning dead celebrity.
Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters. His children's books champion the kindhearted and feature an underlying warm sentiment. His works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and Danny, the Champion of the World. His works for older audiences include the short story collections Tales of the Unexpected and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.