Roald Dahl

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.

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

If you are good, life is good.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.