Roald Dahl

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

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

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

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!

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…