Frasi di Roald Dahl (116 frasi) | Citazioni e frasi celebri

Variante: 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.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
Origine: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“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.”

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Roald Dahl libro The Twits

Origine: The Twits

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”

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Roald Dahl The BFG

Origine: The BFG

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

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Roald Dahl libro Le streghe

"The Heart of a Mouse"
Origine: The Witches (1983)

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

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“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

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“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”

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Origine: Fantastic Mr. Fox

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”

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"Goodbye school" in Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984)

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

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Roald Dahl libro My Uncle Oswald

Origine: My Uncle Oswald (1979)

“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”

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Roald Dahl libro La fabbrica di cioccolato

Variante: We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Origine: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“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.”

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Roald Dahl libro Le streghe

Origine: The Witches

“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”

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“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.”

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Roald Dahl libro Matilde

Origine: Matilda said, "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...

“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”

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Roald Dahl libro Matilde

Origine: Matilda

“We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”

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Roald Dahl libro Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Variante: We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Origine: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

“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.”

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Roald Dahl libro The Minpins

The Minpins (1991)