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 DAHLThe books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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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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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
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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.
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