Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. Roald Dahl Read Quote
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. Roald Dahl Read Quote
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. Roald Dahl Read Quote
Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. Roald Dahl Read Quote
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so. Roald Dahl Read Quote
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. Roald Dahl Read Quote
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. Roald Dahl Read Quote
I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It’s not possible. Roald Dahl Read Quote
