Books Quote by Roald Dahl

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

— Roald Dahl

A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books,…

— Roald Dahl

“Sometimes we chose the books we want to read and sometimes they chose us. ”

— Rubin Carter Dr

“What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!”

— Roald Dahl

“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze…

— Roald Dahl

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every…

— Roald Dahl

“Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...”

— Roald Dahl

“Most people weren’t aware that books chose us, at the time when we needed them most.”

— Rebecca Raisin

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes…

— Roald Dahl

“What was it like to be the person who chose books readers would fall in love with, buy for their mothers, and remember forever…

— Elisabeth Egan

“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer”

— Nayyirah Waheed

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence…

— Paul Di Filippo