Roald Dahl frasi celebri
Roald Dahl Frasi e Citazioni
Boy and Going Solo
Matilda
“La caccia di frodo è un'arte. Un grande cacciatore di frodo è un grande artista.”
Origine: Danny il campione del mondo, p. 25
XXV; p. 160
La fabbrica di cioccolato
da Lo scrittore automatico, in Il libraio che imbrogliò l'Inghilterra
Roald Dahl: Frasi in inglese
“Badger: The cuss you are.
Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?”
Origine: Fantastic Mr. Fox
“The snozberries taste like snozberries!”
Origine: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”
Origine: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?”
Origine: Matilda
“Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!”
Origine: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
“It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.”
Origine: The Witches
“Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.”
Origine: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
Misattributed
Variante: My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.
Origine: Boy: Tales of Childhood