Frasi di Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl è stato uno scrittore e aviatore britannico, conosciuto soprattutto per i suoi romanzi per l'infanzia.

✵ 13. Settembre 1916 – 23. Novembre 1990
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Roald Dahl Frasi e Citazioni

“La caccia di frodo è un'arte. Un grande cacciatore di frodo è un grande artista.”

Roald Dahl libro Danny il campione del mondo

Origine: Danny il campione del mondo, p. 25

Roald Dahl: Frasi in inglese

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”

Roald Dahl libro Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Not original to this work, the proverb dates from at least the 18th century.
Origine: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), Ch. 12, 'Back to The Chocolate Factory' (p.88 in the Paperback edition (1998) from Puffin)

“There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!”

Roald Dahl libro La fabbrica di cioccolato

Origine: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Ch. 15, "The Chocolate Room"

“It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President," said the Postmaster General, "The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.”

Roald Dahl libro Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Origine: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), Ch. 4, "The President" (p. 34 in the 1984 Bantam edition)

“There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.”

Roald Dahl

As quoted in New Statesman (1983); partly quoted in "The Candy Man" by Margaret Talbot in The New Yorker (11 July 2005) http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/07/11/050711crat_atlarge?printable=true

“You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much.”

Roald Dahl

Dahl's second-to-last words, hoping they will be profound

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