black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Roald Dahl

Obscurity is never a virtue.
ROALD DAHL

One Liner Virtue Vulger
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHL

Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
ROALD DAHL

English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
ROALD DAHL

Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
ROALD DAHL

Inspirational Perspiration Writing
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
ROALD DAHL

Humour Right Wrong
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
ROALD DAHL

Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
ROALD DAHL

Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
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.
ROALD DAHL

Annoy Children Deliberate Grow Up Humour Understand
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
ROALD DAHL

Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
ROALD DAHL

Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
ROALD DAHL

Eat Giant
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
ROALD DAHL

Care Character Fight Monster
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
ROALD DAHL

Comparison Freedom Imagination Life Pure True
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

Inspirational Life Original Realize Routune Salary Simplicity Thinking
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
ROALD DAHL

Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
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 lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
ROALD DAHL

Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
ROALD DAHL

Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
ROALD DAHL

Business Inspirational Reverse Strike Time Work Hard
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
ROALD DAHL

Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
ROALD DAHL

Book Done Life Reading View
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it
ROALD DAHL

Absolute Compensation Excep Fools Freedom Master Person Soul Sure
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
ROALD DAHL

Book Children Humour Writing
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
ROALD DAHL

Children Inspirational Learning Look Risk Success
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
ROALD DAHL

Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
ROALD DAHL

Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
ROALD DAHL

Choose Important Inspirational Power

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 lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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 lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Roald Dahl Quotes