It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
The matter with human beans,” the BFG went on, “is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.
What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
We’ve got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You’re getting spoiled, my girl!
Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.
I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.
If it’s by an American it’s certain to be filth. That’s all they write about.
A good plot is like a dream.
Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.
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.
And when I protested a bit more, I remember he said, ‘My dear Lady Ponsonby, there’s nothing immoral about this. Art is only immoral when practiced by amateurs. It’s the same with medicine. You wouldn’t refuse to undress before your doctor, would you?
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn’t poached eggs unless it’s been stolen in the dead of the night.
You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.