Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

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.

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. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

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.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Matilda said, "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...

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Two rights don't equal a left.

Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

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.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

A little magic can take you a long way.

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

If you are good life is good.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Life is more fun if you play games.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

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.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.