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 DAHLI 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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I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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If you are good life is good.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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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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I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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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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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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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.
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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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I’m wondering what to read next.
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