Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHLRainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.
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And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
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Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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