If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

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.

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Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

You is getting nosier than a parker.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light

Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

Let your love out

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

I like enthusiasts of any kind.

Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!