Zitate und Sprüche von Roald Dahl

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from 'Don't Look Now' and 'Eureka.' So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.

Matilda: "Do you want to heat about my first day at school?"
Mrs. Wormwood: "Yuck. I'd rather eat vegetables."

I'm not worried. If people do scary things to you, you can just do scary things back.

Miss Honey's gonna teach us to tell stories. But I think I've got one already. I can feel it sort of wriggling in me. Like it's bursting to get out.

We're told we have to do what we're told but surely
Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty

I wouldn't give up my family for anything. Not for all the chocolate in the world.

Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Why would I wanna send a person? They don't taste very good at all.

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

The aim of writing is to make others see.

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

You know the thing about good food? It brings folks together from all walks of life.