Die schönsten Zitate von Roald Dahl

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

Wenn meine Bücher dabei helfen, Kinder zu Lesern zu machen, dann habe ich etwas wichtiges vollbracht.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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.

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.

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

Wer nicht an Magie glaubt, wird sie niemals finden.

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

Zwei Stunden an einem Roman zu schreiben, lässt den Autor völlig entleert zurück. In diesen beiden Stunden war er an einem anderen Ort, mit völlig anderen Menschen.

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.

Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.

Willy Wonka: "I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!"

I've heard tell, that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

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.

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

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Diese Bücher gaben ihr eine hoffnungsfrohe und tröstliche Botschaft: Du bist nicht allein.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

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

Life is more fun if you play games.

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

Ich begann zu verstehen, wie einfach das Leben war, wenn man regelmäßige Routinen mit festen Zeiten, ein festes Gehalt und sehr wenig Nachzudenken hatte.

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.

Wer nicht an Magie glaubt, wird sie niemals finden.

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

Wenn du etwas erreichen willst, lies so viel, wie du nur kannst.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Alle weisen Männer genießen hier und da ein wenig Unsinn.

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

Wenn es nach mir ginge, könnten wir den Januar aus dem Kalender streichen und stattdessen einen zusätzlichen Juli einfügen.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.