An idiotic vitch like youMust rrroast upon the barbecue!
Truth is more important than modesty
These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In a...
Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants
Listening to my father during those early years, I began to realise 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...
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...
England once there lived a bigAnd wonderfully clever pig.To everybody it was plainThat Piggy had a massive brain.He worked out sums inside his head,There was no book he hadn't read.He knew what made a...
It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmoth...
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
You ignorant little slug! the Trunchbull bellowed. You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one l...
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.
Did you know, Matilda said suddenly, that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of ?I did not, Miss Honey said smiling. How absolutely fascinating. Where did you read that?In a book from the library,...
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
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh,...
Well, first of all, said the BFG, human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.