Roald Dahl Quotes

• If you are good life is good.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Life

• You is getting noisier than a Parker.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Praying, Books
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  If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Good

• It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Love
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  Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Find, Magic

• A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Fool, Person

• All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can’t swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Find, Young

• All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Through, Sometimes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Book, Boring

• A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Day

• Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in God

  Tags in Men

• I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Back, Over

• I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Down, Brave

• I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Little, Thinking

• I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Little, Ever

• Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Heart, Back

• Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Few, Fabulous

• My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Small, Town

• I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Iraq, Flying

Roald Dahl (32)

Birth:	13th September, 1916
Death:	23rd November, 1990
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter

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Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.

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