Quotes by : Roald Dahl

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate....

Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamma.....

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever....

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus....

A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released....

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.

Truth is more important than modesty

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had....

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.