Sometimes, on a very clear night,’ the BFG said, ‘and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction’ – and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling – ‘if I is swiggl...
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.
My darling, she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?I don't mind at all I said.It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody lov...
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you sh...
A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What...
You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her...
Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting t...
What I mean and what I say is two different things, the BFG announced rather grandly.
We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!
We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.
There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood
There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so...
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.
The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
The little pig began to prayBut Wolfie blew his house away.He shouted, Bacon, Pork, and Ham!Oh what a lucky wolf I am!And though he ate the pig quite fast,He carefully kept the tail till last.
So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.