A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
--Roald Dahl
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
--Roald Dahl
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
--Roald Dahl
Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
--Roald Dahl
Don't gobblefunk around with words.
--Roald Dahl
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
--Roald Dahl
I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm going to ignore your advice.
--Roald Dahl
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates.
--Roald Dahl
If you are good life is good.
--Roald Dahl
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
--Roald Dahl
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.
--Roald Dahl
It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you're not feeling twinkly yourself.
--Roald Dahl
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
--Roald Dahl
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
--Roald Dahl
Obscurity is never a virtue.
--Roald Dahl
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
--Roald Dahl
There are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself...
--Roald Dahl
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
--Roald Dahl
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
--Roald Dahl
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
--Roald Dahl
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
--Roald Dahl
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
--Roald Dahl
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