12 wonderful Roald Dahl quotes that offer invaluable life advice
On sticking to your guns: ‘I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.’
On embracing the ridiculous: “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
On love: “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
— Roald Dahl, The Witches
On being different: “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...”
On doing what you're interested in: “If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at 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.”
? Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
On social injustice: “I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
On time management: “We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”
— Roald Dahl
On being ambitious: "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."
On education over idleness: “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.”
? Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
On the folly of the human race: "Mice, I felt pretty certain, all like each other. People don’t."
On duplicity: ‘You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.’
— Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World
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