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

Playful Wisdom, Age Humor, Quirky Language, Wisdom, Humor, Quirky

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around

Roald Dahl’s Quotes On Topics

More Roald Dahl Quotes

“Now that I am alone, I don’t have to hide it; I don’t have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there’s twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don’t have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...”

Isolation Freedom, Hidden Emotions, Self Reflection, Freedom, Emotions, Reflection

“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

Reading Advocacy, Educational Passion, Literary Joy, Reading, Education, Joy

“To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.”

Trade Insights, Economic Value, Natural Resources, Coal, Trade, Wealth

“Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.”

Dream Achievement, Visionary Effort, Urban Inspiration, Dream, Vision, Inspiration

“I would love to go somewhere else and pick peachy fruits in the early morning from the back of an elefunt.”

Imaginative Desire, Childhood Dream, Fun Imagination, Fantasy, Desire, Childhood

“They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other’s heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.”

War Critique, Human Conflict, Social Commentary, War, Conflict, Society

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

Unconditional Love, Acceptance, Appearance Irrelevance, Love, Acceptance, Unconditional

“There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t even started wondering about yet.”

Curiosity Spark, World Mysteries, Unexplored Ideas, Curiosity, Mysteries, Ideas

“A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.”

Gender Perception, Dangerous Behavior, Gender Critique, Gender, Behavior, Critique

“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”

Opportunity Hope, Luck Chance, Optimistic View, Opportunity, Luck, Optimism

“There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this which lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.”

Memory Mysteries, Tantalizing Thoughts, Lingering Ideas, Memory, Mysteries, Ideas

“The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.”

Self Discipline, Writing Routine, Creative Struggles, Writing, Discipline, Routine

“But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It’s right here. You’ve just finished reading it.”

Playful Ending, Story Twist, Book Revelation, Playful, Story, Book

“This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical.”

Dark Imagery, Hellish Descriptions, Unsettling Thoughts, Imagery, Hell, Thoughts

“The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.”

Geographic Comfort, Childhood Connections, Imaginary Lines, Wales, Comfort, Childhood

“Human beans is killing each other much quicker than the giants is doing it.’ ‘But they don’t eat each other,’ Sophie said. ‘Giants isn’t eating each other either,’ the BFG said. ‘Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other.”

Dark Humor, Unique Logic, Giants Perspective, Humor, Logic, Perspective

“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

Anti-TV Message, Bookcase Appeal, Reading Advocacy, TV, Books, Advocacy

“When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths.”

Cake, Humor, Eating Challenge, Humor, Challenge, Cake

“The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.”

Political Humor, Unexpected Events, Embarrassing Moments, Politics, Humor, Events

“The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.”

Childhood Perspective, Civilizing Process, Adult-Child Divide, Childhood, Adults, Morality