It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it's impossible to make… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. — Roald Dahl Copy Share
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
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… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl Copy Share
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those… — Roald Dahl Copy Share
“We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!” — Roald Dahl Copy Share
