I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Roald Dahl

Categorized in : Children Delight Mirth

I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.

cheer kings thinking

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

mind love-you long

The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me? by Roald Dahl

The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

badgers foxes

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invent... by Roald Dahl

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

skates walks lord

Good writing is essentially rewriting. by Roald Dahl

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

rewriting good-writing writing

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

ignorant weed stupid

Good authour Good books by Roald Dahl

Good authour Good books

good-book book

Two wrongs don't make a right. by Roald Dahl

Two wrongs don't make a right.

humorous revenge math

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

wish impossible faces

Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is nev... by Roald Dahl

Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants

giants eating

Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

giants believe thinking

I like enthusiasts of any kind. by Roald Dahl

I like enthusiasts of any kind.

kind

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

sage onions years

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

reading teaching book

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference? by Roald Dahl

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

differences book looks

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it... by Roald Dahl

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

said long father

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved. by Roald Dahl

The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.

sophie maids queens

Eschew all those beastly adjectives. by Roald Dahl

Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

beastly adjectives

The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

pork house pigs

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink.... by Roald Dahl

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

daze want needs