Roald Dahl Quotes

• You is getting noisier than a Parker.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

• If you are good life is good.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Life

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

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Love

• 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

• 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

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

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Find, Magic

• When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Moved

• When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Together

• Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Living, Young

• Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Different

• To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Gold, Coal

• Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Perfect

• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Needs, Drink, Want

• The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nobody

• The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, Able, House

• Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers, Prayers

• Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Dangerous

• Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

  Roald Dahl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Pain

• 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

• 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

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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