“ What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this! Roald Dahl
“ 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! Roald Dahl
“ Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?She'd found it easy, being prettyTo hitch a ride into the city. Roald Dahl
“ 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… Roald Dahl
“ An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. Roald Dahl
“ 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. Roald Dahl
“ 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… Roald Dahl
“ 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. Roald Dahl
“ 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… Roald Dahl
“ What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her. Roald Dahl
“ We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it! Roald Dahl
“ 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… Roald Dahl
“ 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. Roald Dahl
“ Matilda longed for her parents to be good and loving and understanding and honourable and intelligent. The fact that they were none of these things was something she had to put up with. It was not eas… Roald Dahl
“ Is she the only one at fault? For though she’s spoiled, and dreadfully so, A girl can’t spoil herself, you know. Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed? Who pandered to her every need? Who turned her i… Roald Dahl
“ In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their… Roald Dahl
