It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLIt is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLI am suspicious of both facility and speed.
ROALD DAHLYou chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHLGive us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
ROALD DAHLAll the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
ROALD DAHLIf you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
ROALD DAHLFor me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
ROALD DAHLThe greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
ROALD DAHLIf you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
ROALD DAHLI’m wondering what to read next.
ROALD DAHLObscurity is never a virtue.
ROALD DAHLf I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
ROALD DAHLI doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
ROALD DAHLWhen you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
ROALD DAHLSex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.
ROALD DAHLThose who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
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