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Beauty1 quote
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. — Roald Dahl · 1980Books1 quote
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall. — Roald Dahl · 1964Excitement1 quote
I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't. — Roald Dahl · 1975Fear1 quote
I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't. — Roald Dahl · 1975Feeling loved1 quote
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you. — Roald Dahl · 1983Going for it1 quote
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. — Roald Dahl · 1988Home1 quote
Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die. — Roald Dahl · 1984Homesickness1 quote
Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is till you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die. — Roald Dahl · 1984Hypothetical situations1 quote
You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. — Roald Dahl · 1972Love1 quote
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you. — Roald Dahl · 1983Luck1 quote
But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there. — Roald Dahl · 1964Magic1 quote
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. — Roald Dahl · 1990Paying attention1 quote
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. — Roald Dahl · 1990Probability1 quote
But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there. — Roald Dahl · 1964Secrets1 quote
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. — Roald Dahl · 1990TV1 quote
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall. — Roald Dahl · 1964Taking risks1 quote
I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't. — Roald Dahl · 1975Ugliness1 quote
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. — Roald Dahl · 1980