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.

I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.

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

Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Think with your whole body.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

If you want to get what you want give up being right.