The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. /… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important… — 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
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
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