Roald Dahl Quotes & Sayings
36 most famous Roald Dahl quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a Norwegian novelist who passed away on 23 November, 1990.
“The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.”
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
“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.”
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
“I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.”
“If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.”
“I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.”
“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”
“The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.”
“Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.”
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